Quotes About Thought

Productiveness is the act of supporting our existence by translating our thought into reality, of setting our goals and working for their achievement, of bringing knowledge, goods, or services into existence.

The alternative is not to hold everything we think in doubt but rather to maintain an openness to new experience and knowledge—

Sometimes people who feel fear in the human realm drop to a very low level of consciousness in their relationships and seek the safety and security of competence in the impersonal world of machines, mathematics, or abstract thought. No matter what heights they may attain professionally, their self esteem remains flawed. We cannot with impunity run from so important an aspect of life

Life, for a human being, is a constant process of thought, of motion, of purpose, of achievement; it is not the state of merely not being dead.

The closer you penetrated to the substance of his mind, the sounder it appeared.

It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most quietude to the external regulations of society. The thought suffices them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action

There was a sense within her, - too ill-defined to be made a thought, but weighing heavily on her mind, - that her whole orb of life, both before and after, was connected with this spot, as with the one plant that gave it unity.

This so frequent abortion of man's dearest projects must be taken as a proof that the deeds of earth, however etherealized by piety or genius, are without value, except as exercises and manifestations of the spirit. In heaven, all ordinary thought is higher and more melodious than Milton's song. Then, would he add another verse to any strain that he had left unfinished here?

Try to think like a human,' said Gant, lolling in one of the club chairs. 'Why should I restrict myself so severely?

I have become the monster of monsters, he thought as he watched it all burn. The butcher of lions. The executioner of eagles. Then

Many believe that the Thunder refers to a collection of human knowledge-perhaps with mechanical arms for the rapid turning of pages. A library of thought, if you will, roaring into consciousness after the arrival of the Toll on Earth, much like thunder follows lightning.

You still have your own mind,' she pointed out. 'That's got to be worth something.

The thought of a scythe having milk and cookies before bed bordered on absurd to Citra.

Sorry, Your Honor; I was just thinking. Too much of that can be dangerous.

The thought of a scythe having milk and cookies before bed bordered on absurd to Citra. But she suppose even an agent of death would have guilty pleasures.

I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost always regrets doing so.

How difficult it is to understand each other, my dear angel, and how much thought is incommunicable, even between people who love each other!

So you see how difficult it is to understand one another, my dear angel, how incommunicable thought is, even between two people in love.

Patent symbols, perfect picture Of an irremediable fate Which makes one think that the Devil Always does well whatever he does!

In the morning it was morning and I was still alive. Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did.

there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting

there is always that space there just before they get to us that space that fine relaxer the breather while say flopping on a bed thinking of nothing or say pouring a glass of water from the spigot while entranced by nothing that gentle pure space it's worth centuries of existence say just to scratch your neck while looking out the window at a bare branch that space there before they get to us ensures that when they do they won't get it all ever. --It's Ours

What were doctors, lawyers, scientists? They were just men who allowed themselves to be deprived of their freedom to think and act as individuals.

Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did.