Quotes About Thought

Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes. Habits are powerful factors

Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the

our attitudes and behaviors grow out of those assumptions. The way we see things is the source of the way we think and the way we act.

Nothing like a spider in the mouth to get you thinking.

Something he learned long ago came to mind. Stir a person up and they could be made to think. Add in anger and they'll screw up, sure as hell.

Faith was the death of reason. Faith relied on blind allegiance, without thought, only an unquestioned belief.

Speed lacks careful thought and generates too much risk.

Faith was the death of reason. Faith relied on blind allegiance, without thought, only an unquestioned belief. Irrationality seemed the nature of faith, and to institutionalize faith man created religion, which remained one of the oldest and strongest conspiracies ever formed. Look at what they fought about at Nicaea.

Worry is not true thought. Worry is a misuse of the imagination.

Reinvention begins at the level of thought. Don't let your thoughts think you.

Liberation of mind is realising that we don't need to buy any story at all. It's realising that before our confused thought, there actually is Reality. We can see it. All we have to do it to fully engage in this moment as it has come to be.

Liberation of mind is realising that we don't need to buy any story at all. It's realising that before our confused thought, there actually is Reality. We can see it. All we have to do is to fully engage in this moment as it has come to be. For this, the eightfold path points the way.

Liberation of mind is realising that we don't need to buy any story at all. It's realising that before our confused thought, there actually is Reality. We can see it. All we have to do is to fully engage in this moment as it has come to be.

W]e reject … experience in favour of what we think.

Whenever we conceptualise, we create contradictions that we can't escape.

W]e rely on what we think (conception), rather than on what we see (perception), … [T]here's unrest in our mind.

She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.

And after his unparsable response, including a passage where he said he was 'blurring the boundaries between a thing and thought,' she said, 'Thank you, I get lost sometimes,' while laying two fingers on his folded arm.

Few people think more than two or three times a year," Shaw reportedly said.

Come up with a terrible idea? No problem—just don't act on it.

A few lines of reasoning can change the way we see the world.

Like any other thought, a hunch is simply a network of cells firing inside your brain in an organized pattern. But for that hunch to blossom into something more substantial, it has to connect with other ideas. The hunch requires an environment where surprising new connections can be forged: the neurons and synapses of the brain itself, and the larger cultural environment that the brain occupies.

As he reads through his observations, a new thought begins to take shape in his mind, which provokes a whole new set of notes that will only make complete sense to Darwin two years later, after the Malthus episode.

shaking ourselves free of this common misconception: an idea is not a single thing. It is more like a swarm.