Quotes About Thought

Phenomenon," in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed., signifies "an object or aspect known through the senses rather than by thought or intuition." It is commonly contrasted with the term "noumenon" (from the Greek nooumenon: "that which is apprehended by thought"—itself derived from the Greek term nous, for "mind").

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. —Henri Bergson

Sometimes she wondered about lung cancer, but on some basic, primal level she believed that she and any cancers that might grow in her system were one and the same being, and they would do her no harm. ?It was an idle, amusing thought

Welcome to the dawn of Aquarius, where every thought is an identical, hexagonal section of the Hive Mind.

find. At the time, I thought Lewis was a bit hung up on ritual (sacramentalism), but I overlooked this fault

We inhabit two universes, then, One is the universe inside our skulls - our viewpoint universe, as it were.

The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.

Discipleship is a commitment to the memory and presence of Jesus Christ that makes a difference in how a life is lived, driving thought and behavior week in and week out.

Love is a Christian word, Anjin-san. Love is a Christian thought, a Christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I understand you to mean it. Duty, loyalty, honor, respect, desire, those words and thoughts are what we have, all that we need.

The processors in my mind are faster than most computers

Every social order incorporates among its key taboos the notion that people living in it should not think about how it will end and what rules may prevail in the new system that takes its place.

To dare a thought is to risk being wrong.

Thomas had a depressing - and scary - thought. 'Am I . . . replacing someone? Did somebody get killed?' Minho shook his head. 'No, we're just training you - someone'll want a break. Don't worry, it's been a while since a Runner was killed.' For some reason that last statement worried Thomas, though he hoped it didn't show on his face.

Chuck seemed deep in thought. "Well, they found a dead Griever, right?" "Yeah," Newt replied. "Thanks for that bit of news." Chuck absently tapped his fork against the table for a few seconds. "Well, then who killed the stupid thing?" Excellent question, Thomas thought. He waited for Newt to answer, but nothing came. He obviously didn't have a clue.

Era como si la realidad de vivir [...] por fin hubiese calado en su mente.

These people will think their way around an ice cream cone before ever giving it a lick.

Brenda sat back in her chair and let out a sigh. "That wasn't so bad." Yeah, Thomas thought, the bad part's coming up.

It struck Thomas suddenly how thoroughly every detail of this game—this experiment—had been thought out. Could it be that the very name they'd used for their organization had been one of the Variables from the beginning? A word with obvious menace, yet an entity they were told was good? It was probably just another poke to see how their brains reacted, what they felt.

Words go together in zillions of ways. Some ways go deep, and some ways go shallow.

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

Give me a little peace. A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought.

My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought and conditioned feelings that prevail in psychology and therefore also in the way we think and feel about our being. Of these conditions none are more tyrannical than the convictions that clamp the mind and heart into positivistic science (geneticism and computerism), economics (bottom-line capitalism), and single-minded faith (fundamentalism).