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Quotes About Thought

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
~ Robert W. Service
It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.
~ Michael Nesmith
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
~ John B. S. Haldane
There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney
I read a lot of bad scripts and weird television shows. I don't know. There's a lot of work out there I was reading at 14 years old and noticing this lack of thought. And then, reading 'Afterschool,' that's full of thought. It was bursting with ideas.
~ Ezra Miller
I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and my pool light was out, and as I've done a thousand times I just kind of did a little seal dive. I saw a huge bright light and I literally thought, 'That's it.'
~ Brooke Burns
There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
~ Martin Buber
I often put any project I write in a different decade just to roll the thought around in my head. There's a thriller I've written that I think would be nice to set in the '70s or '80s, just to take cell phones away from the movie. There's nothing like the piercing ring of an old-school telephone to really scare an audience.
~ Joel Edgerton
If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.
~ Jamie Dimon
The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.
~ Robert Musil
Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.
~ John Polkinghorne
The reason, however, why the philosopher may be likened to the poet is this: both are concerned with the marvellous.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
It is not our body which feels, not our mind which thinks, but we, as single human beings, who both feel and think.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
An angel can illume the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don't want to.
~ Sakyong Mipham
It is vitally important for women to learn how to think biblically for themselves instead of being enslaved to other people's thoughts and opinions. To truly follow God with everything in our lives, we must learn to develop discernment.
~ Sally Clarkson
Por un lado están los que piensan linealmente, y por otro lado estás tú, que eres como un golpe de brisa en el parque de la imaginación
~ Sally Gardner
Our breath Caught like a needle On the skin of water You said "Will it be here?" "Here where the grass is so tall?" And I thought Yes Yes here
~ Sally Mann
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
~ Salman Rushdie
I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.
~ Salvador Dali
Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.
~ Salvador Dali
Hiç kimse akl?ma filan girmedi. Benim akl?m, fikrim var; anl?yorum; gözüm var, görüyorum.
~ Samed Behrengi
Love is lovelierThe second time around.Just as wonderful with both feet on the ground.It's that second time you hear your love song sungMakes you think perhaps that love, like youth, is wasted on the young.
~ Sammy Cahn