Quotes About Thought

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly.

Age 49. — A man's physical prime is between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the prime time for his soul and capacity for thought is around forty-nine.

I would try desperately to think about my childhood, but I couldn't. The war memories had formed a barrier that I had to break in order to think

It's funny about imagination, how it

Misli dobro, pa ?e dobro i biti.

Learning to trust yourself means focusing on the good you are, the good you have, and the good you desire so that the truth can heal all error thought and allow you to see the blessing hidden in all that you have been through, gone through, and grown through.

A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective.' (1923)

Even as I think these words for the first time, the me who is my future self is remembering me thinking these words for the first time.

He didn't say his first thought, always, was: Is she home? Is she safe?

Murder could happen, she thought as she drove to Cop Central, to anyone, anywhere, anytime.

she prefers to think in similitudes rather than reason things out...

La razón no es ni la esencia del universo ni mucho menos la esencia de Dios. Muy al contrario, a mí la razón se me antoja sospechosamente la esencia del pensamiento humano; peor aún, es como la esencia de una sola tendencia del pensamiento humano.

There is no such thing as self-awareness. Imagine thought retreating into itself to think about itself. It would be easier to imagine a revolver bullet extracting itself from its victim's wound and re-entering the barrel. Yes, it would be easier to imagine the universe's explosion suddenly halting its outflow of energy, so that the galaxies congeal once more, and the millions of light-years of their flight through space are immediately annulled.

date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage.

It was goddamned weird having someone waiting for him to come home, Wrath thought.

With a start, she forced a smile to her face. "I would prefer to be surprised." Now he grinned deeply. "Even more fun—well, as I said, I want to introduce you to someone." His smile faded a little. "I think you might like her." Her? As in a female? Like? Verily, that would happen only if the "she" in question had a horse face and a big butt, Payne thought. "How lovely," she said.

Man, there were a lot of purgatories getting expunged tonight, he thought ruefully, both real and figurative:

I have more faith in my God than to believe He would give me a mind and then ask me not to use it.

and closed his eyes, thinking about it.      

Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind.

now this warm thought of greatness is a big chill in the wind—for

Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize "The stars are words" and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind. There's no need for solitude. So love life for what it is, and form no preconceptions whatever in your mind.

The mere thought of looking out the window at Mexico—which was now something else in my mind—was like recoiling from some gloriously riddled glittering treasure-box that you're afraid to look at because of your eyes, they bend inward, the riches and the treasures are too much to take all at once.