Quotes About Thought

The exercise of thought, whatever people may say, is more noble than the exercise of bodily organs, and we give precedence to science over cookery and to intellectual training over hygiene.

Great artists are beings who, to quote Napoleon, can cut off at will the connection which Nature has put between the senses and thought.

Our dreams need time and physical means and painstaking thought before they can be realized.

A man may be put to death by a thought.

Thought alone holds the tradition of the bygone life. The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

"Women," she said, with tears in her eyes, "can only love; men act; they have a thousand ways in which they are bound to act. But we can only think, and pray, and worship."

One thought borne inward, one prayer uplifted, one suffering endured, one echo of the Word within us, and our souls are forever changed.

Maybe I'd started thinking again about Y?ko and what she was like, the translucent silhouette of a petal fluttering down to the ground against the glare of the sun—a petal from a flower named gentleness.

The sensation that my brain cells were multiplying was exhilarating.

pensé en silencio.

Acting is an astonishingly easy profession. I've given no more thought to my best roles than I have to my worst.

Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight --We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear.

Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.

The mind protects and the heart connects

I've thought about it, but I'd have to find a man as crazy as I am to take me on,

You believe you have no soul. That's a disorganized thought in my world. -Sarah Lange to Dr. David Sutton

The turnings of thought" (citta-v?tti) refers to the totality of mental processes—conscious, subconscious, and hyperconscious—not simply to the faculties of intellect, recollection, or emotion.

For one whose thought is tranquil, mastery extends from the most minute particle to the vast expanse. -Patanjali

Empty minds are abhorred by thought as vacuums are by nature.

To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance.

Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought.

He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.

I was fairly puzzled as I thought over all the divisions of the most learned Church in the most religious country in the world.

Reason is dependent on faith, and faith is helpless without reason. A belief of some sort underlies every system of thought. If we bore as deep as we can through systems, the deepest thing we reach is an undemonstrable thesis, which is accepted and believed in as a verity. It is the primary substance which is unaffected by the most corrosive acid so long as it remains uncombined.