Quotes About Thought

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away. And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience.

It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the law of attraction.

The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.

People love you when they on your mind/A thought is love's currency.

You the one that I dream about all day. You the one that I think about always. You are the one so I make sure I behave! My love is your love, your love is my love.

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Admittedly, the nature of language is one of the most mysterious questions that exists for man to ponder on.

Philosophy, in its very diachrony, is the consciousness of the breakup of consciousness.

He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something to me but had forgotten what it was.

I'm mad getting involved." "No, I don't. Too many people follow their own happiness without a thought for the damage they leave in their wake.

Intenté no pensar en nada. Intenté existir, nada más.

conducts a swift mental list of people she

Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.

as to describe the impact of Francis on his era this way: " [His life] closed the reign of Byzantine art and of the thought of which it was the image. It is the end of dogmatism and authority. Uncertainty became permissible in some small measure. It marks a date in the history of the human conscience."3

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

That's an incredibly depressing thought," I said "that if you're in a room and at one end lies madness and at the other end lies sanity it is human nature to veer towards the madness end.

Han tänkte: "Jag är här." Det är en stor och mäktig tanke. Han har upptäckt att han finns.

My wickedness, as I am in myself, has long appeared to me perfectly ineffable, and infinitely swallowing up all thought and imagination; like an infinite deluge or infinite mountains over my head.

The most determining external influence on his style was unquestionably the old, so-called King James version of the English Bible. His language is saturated with its thought and phraseology. And as he is intimately acquainted with it in all its parts, so he is continually quoting it and constantly surprising us with fresh discoveries, in novel collocations, of its variety, beauty and impressiveness.

Exploratory thought is an "evenhanded consideration of alternative points of view." Confirmatory thought is "a one-sided attempt to rationalize a particular point of view.

When all three conditions apply, people do their darnedest to figure out the truth, because that's what the audience wants to hear. But the rest of the time—which is almost all of the time—accountability pressures simply increase confirmatory thought. People are trying harder to look right than to be right.

A central function of thought is making sure that one acts in ways that can be persuasively justified or excused to others.