Quotes About Thought

Divertir-se significa que não devemos pensar, que devemos esquecer a dor, mesmo onde ela se mostra. Na base do divertimento planta-se a impotência. É, de fato, fuga, mas não, como pretende, fuga da realidade perversa, mas sim do ultimo grão de resistência que a realidade ainda pode haver deixado. A libertação prometida pelo entretenimento é a do pensamento como negação.

It is not surprising that emotion untutored by thought results in nearly contentless blather, in which--ironically enough--genuine emotion cannot be adequately expressed.

A thought will color a world for us.

She turned; she bruised under her heel the scaly head of this dark suspicion-as terrifying to her as his guilt was to him. 'O Absalom, my Absalom! Come, come, we will not entertain such a thought. God himself would not urge it upon a mother.

He had always acted as if men were masters of forces, as if all things were possible for men determined in purpose and clear in thought—even the Presidency. This perhaps is what he had best learned in 1960—even though he called his own victory a "miracle." This was what he would have to cherish alone in the White House, on which an impatient world waited for miracles.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Great thought speak only to the thoughtful mind ,but great actions speak to all mankind.

It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought.

Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.

The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?" I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it.

Is that the way you get through life? By not thinking?" she asked. "Works for me." She couldn't imagine living like that. Just existing. For her, life was analyzing things. Life was reactions. And emotions. She

I am a person. You are a person. Without you I am not a person, for only through you is language made possible and only through language is thought made possible, and only through thought is humanness made possible. You have made me important. Therefore, I am important and you are important. If I devalue you, I devalue myself. This is the rationale of the position I'M OK – YOU'RE OK.

The fact that we do not have absolute certainty in regard to any human conclusions does not mean that the task of inquiry is fruitless. We must, it is true, always proceed on the basis of probability, but to have probability is to have something. What we seek in any realm of human thought is not absolute certainty, for that is denied us as men, but rather the more modest path of those who find dependable ways of discerning different degrees of probability.

In deliberation we may hesitate; but a deliberated act must be performed swiftly.

On the contrary, The Philosopher holds the intellect to be the higher power than the intellect.

The definition that "Truth is the equation of thought and thing" is applicable to it under either aspect.

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

In her eyes a thought Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn, A mystical forewarning.

Upon the cunning loom of thought We weave our fancies, so and so.

Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of death— We die whene'er we think of it!

So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.

A case which commonly happens with us in London, as well as our Neighbours in Paris, where if a Witty Man starts a happy thought, a Million of sordid Imitators ride it to death.

One need not disavow the gifts of intellect in giving thought to their Giver