Quotes About Thought

But at the bottom," he writes in his powerful memoir Den of Lions, "in surrender so complete there is no coherent thought, no real pain, no feeling, just exhaustion, just waiting, there is something else. Warmth/light/softness. Acceptance, by me, of me. Rest. After a while, some strength. Enough, for now.

S'interruppe.<> ( Ho sognato di te )

We are products of the past and we live immersed in the past, which encompasses us. How can we move towards the new life, how create new activities without getting out of the past and without placing ourselves above it? And how can we place ourselves above the past if we are in it and it is in us? There is no other way out except through thought, which does not break off relations with the past but rises ideally above it and converts it into knowledge.

Un pensatore che non soffra il suo problema e non viva il suo pensiero, non è un pensatore ma un retore, ripetitore di formole che furono pensieri già pensati in passato da altri.

God is a thing that thinks.

No conozco el mundo más que por el pensamiento, el tacto y el oído.

mar donde el pensamiento navega a su antojo sin llegar jamás a ninguna orilla;

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

I have sometimes half believed, although the suspicion is mortifying, that there is only one step between his state who deeply indulges in imaginative meditation, and insanity.

I have found a truth that humanity needs, that brings unspeakable joy to human hearts and homes, that brightens all the life, that assuages sorrow, that dispels care, that kills the materialistic spirit of our age, and lifts mankind into noble thought and life.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only Bounds it ought to know.

So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do. Keimer

Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.

Quão conveniente é ser uma criatura racional; isso permite que se encontre ou crie uma razão para qualquer coisa que se queira fazer.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever of folly

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid thought that is in our minds.