Quotes About Thought

There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

Men at first feel without perceiving, then they perceive with a troubled and agitated spirit, finally they reflect with a clear mind.

Entrando nell'appartamento, Fenoglio percepiì come una traccia nell'aria. Fu un attimo, un'impressione, quasi una cosa immaginata, un ricordo che non riesci a ricordare, un pensiero fastidioso e inafferrabile.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Dogmatism does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings.

Intelligent' cannot be defined in terms of 'intellectual' or 'knowing how' in terms of 'knowing that'; 'thinking what I am doing' does not connote 'both thinking what to do and doing it'. When I do something intelligently, i.e. thinking what I am doing, I am doing one thing and not two. My performance has a special procedure or manner, not special antecedents.

When I do something intelligently, i.e. thinking what I am doing, I am doing one thing and not two. My performance has a special procedure or manner, not special antecedents.

Moreover both this constant awareness (generally called 'consciousness'), and this non-sensuous inner perception (generally called 'introspection') have been supposed to be exempt from error.

It has for a long time been taken for an indisputable axiom that the Mind is in some important sense tripartite, that is, that there are just three ultimate classes of mental processes. The Mind or Soul, we are often told, has three parts, namely, Thought, Feeling and Will;

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

It's only when we are identified with the mind ("I think it, therefore it's true") that differences become a problem, because then we believe what comes next: the mind's assertion of what needs to be done about that problem.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.

El martirio de la humanidad es doble: para el macho, la más dura fatiga: el pensar; para la hembra, la más espantosa tortura: el parir.

Onca kulak var, ama beyin çok az.

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Life to be bearable must be lived intensely. Through it a continuous stream of emotion passes. Though that emotion is ever changing as flowing water changes, it at least bears us along on a current that gives the illusion of continuity and permanence. But analyze life, tear its trappings off, lay it bare with thought, with logic, with philosophy, and its emptiness is revealed as a bottomless pit; its nothingness frankly confesses to nothingness, and Despair comes to perch in the soul.

Mais l'endoctrinement en bas age peut marquer un individu à vie: "ces écoles mettent les enfants face à un seul schéma de pensée, en réduisant au minimum leur vision du monde.on leur apprend que rien n'existe en dehors du bien et du mal, toute nuance est effacée", précise le docteur chérif.

To menace the freedom of thought, religion, and personal safety of other citizens is not long permitted by a nation of free men, for freedom is their dearest possession, dearer even than life itself.

She wants to see the children before she dies," pronounced his wife. "Poor thing. I expect she's very lonely and unhappy right out there in the country. Write back quickly, dear, and tell her how very welcome she is." "I'd better tip the boys the wink to be civil to her," said Godfrey, pursuing a different train of thought. "Her money's got to be left somewhere, and she was never one to be fond of cats.