Quotes About Thought

You might not be able to answer a question with a question but you can always answer a question with a quote!

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

Dasjenige aber nur allein ist fruchtbar, was der Einbildungskraft freies Spiel läßt. Je mehr wir sehen, desto mehr müssen wir hinzu denken können.

Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness)

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze.

Understanding an idea meant entangling it so thoroughly with all the other symbols in your mind that it changed the way you thought about everything.

If you're not prepared to perform the experiment yourself, at least think about the implications. Imagine that you've modified the way in which you're computed – and imagine what the consequences would be. A gedanken experiment – is that too much to ask for? In a sense, that's all I ever performed myself.

I was recruited by the dead,' Zak said. 'Not in any rush to join them in their silence, but from the urgent need to understand what they might have thought and done that could survive them, that could speak across the ages, that could be continued even now.

Understanding an idea meant entangling it so thoroughly with all the other symbols in your mind that it changed the way you thought about everything. Still

Opponents replied that when you modeled a hurricane, nobody got wet. When you modeled a fusion power plant, no energy was produced. When you modeled digestion and metabolism, no nutrients were consumed – no real digestion took place. So, when you modeled the human brain, why should you expect real thought to occur?

I have an idea," Cazio said after a moment. "What a lonely creature it must be.

Since the fall of man was ethical in character (not metaphysical) the unregenerate and regenerate share the facts of the world and the rules of thought, but their interpretation and use of them are far from neutral.

There are no facts or uses of reason which are available outside of the interpretive system. The argument must pit the unbeliever's system of thought as a unit against the believer's system of thought as a unit. Their overall perspectives will have to contend with each other.

To avoid Christ in your thought at any point, then, is to be misled, untruthful, and spiritually dead.

Jesus' thought was, "Give me teachable, loyal people, and watch me change the world.

Key 7: The focus of our awareness becomes the reality of our world.

observation is an act of creation, and that consciousness is doing the creating.

the object of our attention becomes the reality of our world.

All right, he thought, so the details were not perfect. But maybe, in a sense, that was part of the magic, too.

Pensar lleva tiempo.

Concentration is… a relaxed mental state, where the stream of consciousness flows in a single direction, either focusing on a phrase or mental picture, or alternately, a state in which the mind is alert and aware.

Concentration is the doorway through which the meditative state becomes available.