Quotes About Thought

I wasn't in a position to defend myself. Sometimes it's a brutal profession. The first thing I thought of at the time was revenge. I have a more levelheaded take on the issue today.

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it.

And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.

Continually reorder the mind and the mental structures, the ability to think in prescribed ways, to analyze in prescribed ways, and to stop thought for periods of time.

We live in a sensual world, and at the same time we live beyond it - billions of dimensions that are nonphysical, we experience them when we stop thought.

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

I always say it takes as much preparation and thought to do a small part as a leading part. In some ways, leads are easier because you have the luxury of time to discover the character.

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.

The reverse gear of time is the mind!

Lailah Gifty Akita

You think and it's done, It's a luck not a talent.

If your brain is working, you always have no time.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

Some days, I think maybe we should try and be a little more conventional, but every time I try, I fail, so I'm learning to not even entertain that thought anymore.

The Internet is part of our evolution. The mystics used to say, 'We can travel across the planet in a thought.' Now we really can. We can be connected with a million people at a time.

Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.

With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.

Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?