Quotes About Thought

The most destructive or constructive actions begin with a single thought.

Worse than a toddler,' she thought, and stretched out beside him. He flicked her a glance that said, 'I'll allow you to pet me.' Except, when she reached out to stroke the soft fur behind his ear, his glare said, 'But only with your gaze.

Well, now that you mention it…

When you channel your thinking, your mind becomes much more productive.

Science knows still practically nothing about the real nature of matter, energy, dimension, or time; and even less about those remarkable things called life and thought. But whatever the meaning and purpose of this universe, you are a legitimate part of it.

Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought—even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so much of pain is the consciousness of it. It makes itself objective. Whereas to think about pleasure is to step outside of it; to think about a presently felt pain is to step inside it. And in a very real sense, we've already got them in Hell.

A tiny adjustment, but a tasty one. Poof! And somewhere in the back of their minds the godlike thought glimmers.

Es wird mir ganz angst um die Welt, wenn ich an die Ewigkeit denke.

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

Sin duda la primera sátira fue hecha por venganza. Utilizarla para el mejoramiento del prójimo, contra los vicios y no contra los viciosos, es ya un pensamiento domesticado, enfriado, deglutido.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

Smee made the leap between mind and mechanism, concluding that "it is apparent that thought is amenable to fixed principles. By taking advantage of a knowledge of these principles it occurred to me that mechanical contrivances might be formed which should obey similar laws, and give those results which some may have considered only obtainable by the operation of the mind itself.

There is therefore a background in Jewish thought for combining the roles of advocacy and instruction that somewhat parallels the dual usage of parakl?tos in John.

While Vincent Taylor has not adequately recognized all that is involved in the death of Christ, he has expressed himself effectively when he says, "The idea that no act of requital is due to a holy God, or is needed by men, is a modern notion which it would be a libel to attribute to the ancient world; and to say that Jesus cannot have spoken of his death in this way is to modernize his figure and his thought."33

The whole history of New Testament thought is to be understood as the invasion of God's world into the realm of history to secure humanity's redemption.

The blind spot of AI is that consciousness does not emerge from thought; it is the source of

The universe was full of wonders. Some of them would drive you insane if you thought about them too long.

Living things have minds. Animated things have matrixes.

When he concentrates like that," Gaston told me, "if you're really quiet, you can hear the gears in his head turning. Sometimes you catch a faint puff of smoke coming out of his ears…

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.