Quotes About Thought

Language must be taken in a wider sense than speech, for speech is only the outward flow of thoughts formulated for communication

In my opinion, faith does not exclude thought (which is man's strongest weapon), but unfortunately many believers seem to be afraid of science (and incidentally of psychology) that they turn a blind eye to the numinous psychic powers that forever control man's fate. We have stripped all things of their mystery and numinosity; nothing is holy any longer.

Before him exist neither question nor answer.

At the highest level of this type of initiatory activity, far from those tricks-of-the-trade by which magic so frequently replaces true spiritual insight, we find the Hindu master yogis. In their trance states they go far beyond the normal categories of thought.

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result

unconscious thought theory (UTT)—an attempt to understand the different roles conscious and unconscious deliberation play in decision making.

Prior to the twentieth century, persons suffering from mental illness were thought to be "alienated," not only from the rest of society but from their own true natures. Those experts who studied mental pathologies were therefore known as alienists.

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

Este estado de felicidad y paz, y no las posesiones materiales, es la medida del pensamiento correcto; la infelicidad, no la falta de posesiones materiales, es la medida del pensamiento errado.

La vida no es sólo el corazón que late. Es también el pensamiento flotando sobre el corazón que ha dejado de latir.

Her idea had a beautiful simplicity at first.

your reality is only what you conceive in your mind!

It is one of the precious mysteries of sorrow that it finds solace in unselfish thought. - James A. Garfield

The failure of Aristotle to distinguish sharply between the worlds of experience and of mathematical thought resulted in his lack of clear recognition of a similar confusion in the paradoxes of Zeno.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Thinking is difficult. Therefore, let the herd pronounce judgement.

In this way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively take the place of reality.

The truth is that every thought is preceded by a perception, every impulse is preceded by a thought, every action is preceded by an impulse, and man is not so private a being that his behavior is unseen, his patterns undetectable.

Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.

He looks at one of the pictures for a long time. Then he looks at me. "I'll keep you up here." He taps his temple. "Where you can't get lost.

Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.

I'll keep you here.' He taps his temple. 'Where you can't get lost.

You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.