Quotes About Thought

If you take an idea and just hold it in your head, you unconsciously start to do things that advance you toward that goal.

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

"Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world."

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

When you put a thing on paper, sometimes you discover you already know the answer. Or maybe that there is no answer, which is the same thing.

Indiscriminate ideological suspicion of any idea, without the urge to exalt an idea of one's own, will discourage rather than promote lucidity.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

trying to avoid here is the rush into planning projects and budgets at the expense of strategic thought

The key point is that independence of thought is demanded of all directors when on a board.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Paradigm is a part of the conditioning of the mind, our conditioning thought patterns

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — the distance between your ears.

At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

Dovevate starvene seduti a casa, sul culo...

Attraverso i libri ho appreso che i cieli non sono affatto umani e che un uomo che sa pensare, anche lui non è umano, non che non lo voglia, ma ciò contrasta col giusto modo di pensare.

Camino pensado en la melancolía de este mundo que no se acaba de construir jamás.

Dziwny pies ?a?cuchowy!"- pomy?la? Wokulski.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Courage and timidity are the accompaniments of opposite tendencies of thought. The brave think only of the blows they will strike; the timid of those they may receive.

Only the optimist looks wisely on life. Though the actual world is not to his liking, it is the happiness of the optimist to carry a nobler in his thought.

All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres.

Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

I thought you right-wing NRA guys were against premarital sex." "No, no, we just preach that so we can clear the playing fields for ourselves." She