Quotes About Thought

Thinking can not trade in metaphors directly. It must trade in a more basic currency that captures the abstract concepts shared by the metaphor and its topic […] while sloughing off the irrelevant bits.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.

As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.

It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.

My secret is that I have never thought there is a secret to anything in life. Passion. Love. Drive. Work. Work. Work. Dull but true.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

I had never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love doesn't seem like such a bad way to go.

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had.

Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines.

God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love.

…we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.

Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.

I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.

You should be able to use your intellect and not to be dominated by your intellect.

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.

In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.

When you decide to learn about your faults so that they can be rectified, you open a line of communication with the source of all revelatory thought. Maybe that's the same thing as consulting your conscience. Maybe that's the same thing, in some manner, as a discussion with God.

Without free speech there is no true thought.

Jordan B. Peterson

Por definición, nuestros patrones habituales de acción solo bastan para cosas y situaciones de determinada significación: solo sabemos como actuar en presencia de lo que nos es familiar. La aparición de lo inesperado nos saca de la complacencia inconsciente, axiomática, y nos obliga (dolorosamente) a pensar.