Quotes About Thought

Qué rara es la memoria: nos permite recordar lo que no hemos vivido.

La memoria tiene la capacidad maravillosa de acordarse del olvido, de su existencia y su acecho, y así nos permite mantenernos alerta cuando no queremos olvidar y olvidar cuando lo preferimos

La eternidad es una idea violenta

I must try to be charitable, Caroline thought: probably she doesn't mean to sound as if she is continually translating from Latin.

Despite heroic efforts by the geneticist Sewall Wright (1889–1988), causal vocabulary was virtually prohibited for more than half a century. And when you prohibit speech, you prohibit thought and stifle principles, methods, and tools.

Counterfactuals are the building blocks of moral behavior as well as scientific thought. The ability to reflect on one's past actions and envision alternative scenarios is the basis of free will and social responsibility. The algorithmization of counterfactuals invites thinking machines to benefit from this ability and participate in this (until now) uniquely human way of thinking about the world.

thought; not that it mattered

Beden salt bir fiziksel varl?k de?ildir; bellekle ve dü?le, geçmi?le ve gelecekle zenginle?ir.

Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam which is everything.

A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.

L' amour est comme un sablier, avec le coeur remplir le vide du cerveau

Was den Menschen vom Tier unterschied, war die Fähigkeit, im Angesicht der Katastrophe "Siehste!" zu denken.

In the second half of the fifth century, intellectuals called sophists developed some philosophical skills, particularly in argument, and philosophical interests, particularly in ethical and social thought. The best known are Protagoras, Hippias, Gorgias and Prodicus.

As he once told her, "a long closely connected train of reasoning is like a beautiful strain of music.")

Hasta para no creer en Dios se tiene una idea de Dios

He didn't know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because he was quite certain it would be nearly impossible to live with her, but somehow he knew that it wouldn't be at all difficult to love her.

And then Alec had a providient thought. "D'you want my sister?" "Octavia!" Hugh gasped at him. "isn't she twelve?" "She's nineteen." "I can't marry her. I'd keep picturing her as twelve.

Who, the viscount?" Kate thought herself a saint for not shaking her sister senseless. "Yes, the viscount.

The mere thought of trying to attract a suitor was exhausting.

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Whether we know it or not, each of our decisions is influenced by what we want to see or think.

The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal.

What information you see doesn't dictate what you think or believe. I think it's crazy to think that.

The idea that you can make one speech or one movie, or express a thought or show the injustice of a particular time, you hope that it resonates, and you hope that resonance will last. You hope that it would create change.