Quotes About Thought

His organizational and administrative talents in a criminal activity were accompanied by an astonishing 'inability to think'.

Life in the Impasse des Huit Anges would, Latimer thought, be rather like a rehearsal for Eternity.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Cuando el pensamiento no está sincronizado con el fluir de la vida, entonces, tal como todo lo que se separa de su fuente, "surge la necesidad".

is a bureaucrat, first and foremost. His central concern—now and always—is going to be his position within the power structure, not the needs of the struggle. When a job goes sour, his first thought is going to be: cover my ass. And for that, ain't nothing better than a dumb young greenhorn

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

What I think you think about what I want creates storms of behaviour that change what is.

We see how boredom arises as a special, terrible problem for smart people. A smart person has a lively brain; that brain wants to work; it is primed to think; and if you give it nothing to do, it will do nothing for as long as it can bear to do nothing, but it will not be happy. It will be bored and, worse, begin to doubt the meaningfulness of life.

Luther was the unwitting harbinger of a new world in which the well-established boundaries of what was acceptable were exploded, never to be restored. Suddenly the individual had not only the freedom and possibility of thinking for himself but the weighty responsibility before God of doing so.

The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call Lobachevsky the Copernicus of Geometry [as did Clifford], for geometry is only a part of the vaster domain which he renovated; it might even be just to designate him as a Copernicus of all thought.

A rational mind is sometimes the queerest mixture of rationality and irrationality on earth.

Blind faith exists in rare situations. In most cases, people believe in things that are tangible. The creative process involves complexities of new thought, thereby creating a natural sense of fear for those who cannot see.

Provoking Thought & Inspiring the Imagination

Enfin, le soufisme n'était pas une maladie, ce qui m'a déjà rassuré un peu, c'était une façon de penser -même s'il y a des façons de penser qui sont aussi des maladies, disait souvent monsieur Ibrahim.

Mut beweist man nicht mit der Faust allein, man braucht den Kopf dazu.

I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had come and would go again — nothing more. I meant not to give room to the thought that it could ever be more. I knew too well that all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.

Why does a man live? -In order to think about it...

the motto of all consciousness is determinatio est negatio.

the conscious state is the late and uncommon phenomenon, and its complete attainment is far more of a rarity than modern man so flatteringly pretends, while the unconscious state is the original, basic, psychic situation

The direction of a man's thought is always the decisive factor in his personality. His whole outer life will be determined by the inward inclination of his mind.

Scholars make things very easy for themselves. They stick a couple of old potsherds together, search for one or two adjacent cultures, stick a label on the restored find and—hey, presto!—once again everything fits splendidly into the approved pattern of thought.

Es un error el creer que la palabra y el pensamiento sean funciones ligadas entre sí, y que sin el lenguaje no se pueda pensar.

I'm glad he's not my father, she thought.

He's in a mood, Shadowpaw thought