Quotes About Thought

To see is to experience the world as it is, to remember is to experience the world as it was, but to imagine-ah, to imagine is to experience the world as it isn't and has never been, but as it might be. The greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real, and it is this ability that allows us to think about the future.

la grammaire est le premier outil de la pensée organisée et (...) la fameuse analyse logique (...) ajuste les mouvements de notre réflexion, laquelle se trouve aiguisée par le bon usage des fameuses propositions subordonnées.

Forced to think you end up coming to a conclusion.Forced to come to a conclusion you make a decision.And once you made the decision you really acts.

Il sapere è innanzitutto carnale. Le nostre orecchie e i nostri occhi lo captano, la nostra bocca lo trasmette. Certo, ci viene dai libri, ma i libri escono da noi. Fa rumore, un pensiero, e il piacere di leggere è un retaggio del bisogno di dire.

Ça fait du bruit, une pensée, et le goût de lire est un héritage du besoin de dire.

Un pensamiento hace ruido, y el placer de leer es una herencia de la necesidad de decir.

To me, the more I thought about it, the more the dream seemed, intuitively, real—a victory over a residue of her psyche by my unconscious self.

He left out that he did not simply go to war--he had to be dragged kicking and screaming. He said that it was not that he was afraid--just that seeming to agree with such a thing would suggest one hadn't given it any thought.

I like the darkness. It clarifies my thinking. – Gabriel Allon

Wasting the valuable time of others, thought Rousseau, was a bureaucrat's ultimate revenge.

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

As one philosopher noted, the human brain is an "anticipation machine," and "making future" is the most important thing it does.

Mind is the great lever of all things.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

the Spirit is the mind that is always present, bringing the best, most loving, most hopeful thought into the midst of every situation.

Simplicity rules everything worth while, and whenever I have been up against a business proposition which, after taking thought, I could not reduce to simplicity, I have realized that it was hopelessly wrong and I have let it alone.

Il faudrait réactiver cette chose délicieuse qui consiste à réfléchir sans se croire obligé d'accrocher au bout de sa pensée une opinion... on est devenu un lecteur mou en réflexion, mais dur en opinion.

Sbaglio colossale come chi scrive nel risvolto che la poesia consiste nel pensare nella lingua...

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

Sow a thought and reap an act; sow an act and reap a habit; sow a habit and reap a destiny." Everything starts within. Anger

Time is only a state of mind, so being late is only a thought one can posess.

Therefore, the only thing that stands between us and any kind of miracle is the fleshly pattern or system of thought that has captivated us in the realm of the soul.

Mr. Shelton thought for a moment.

The problem you face is not the problem described in the catastrophe clause of your worry. The problem you face is the discomfort you experience in response to the worrisome thought, and your natural inclination to take that thought seriously and resist it. When you resist the thought with your usual selection of anti-worry responses, this is when you once again experience the difficulty of The harder I try, the worse it gets.