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Quotes About Thought

Hala da düÅŸünürüm:Haf?zam?z?n,biz yaÅŸland?kça fazla yük ta??mak istemeyen huysuz bir yük hayvan? gibi att??? a??rl?klar en sevmediÄŸi yükler midir,en a??rlar? m?,yoksa en kolay düÅŸenler mi?
~ Orhan Pamuk
Ne tuhaf aÅŸk denen ÅŸey! Åžimdiyi hiç yaÅŸam?yorum sanki! Bir yandan b?k?p usanmadan gelecekte ne olaca??n? düÅŸünüyor, öte yandan da bütün hareketlerini ve sözlerini anlamland?rabilmek için olup bitenleri yeniden defalarca düÅŸünerek geçmiÅŸte ya??yorum.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Lo que importa no es tanto lo que haces con tus manos como lo que haces con tu mente. Todo lo que se ha logrado por la mano o el cerebro del hombre, nació en la mente.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Every word we speak is an indestructible force, because it affirms a thought, a sentiment, an emotion, a motive, which never ceases to exert its power.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Purity is power because it means integrity of thought, integrity of conduct. It means wholeness.
~ Orison Swett Marden
It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division. —Addison.
~ Orison Swett Marden
We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.
~ Orson Scott Card
Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement. It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live.
~ Orson Scott Card
Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.
~ Orson Scott Card
It was even before he left Earth that he first thought of it as a planet, like any other, not particularly his own.
~ Orson Scott Card
Like climbing a cliff, thinking is a perilous activity for those unused to it.
~ Orson Scott Card
looking down at the Chinese officer who was trying to gather his entrails with his hands. Suriyawong had the irrational thought that the man ought really to wash his organs before jamming them back into his abdomen. It was so unsanitary.
~ Orson Scott Card
Thus I began to realize that, as it is, Ender's Game disturbs some people because it challenges their assumptions about reality. In fact, the novel's very clarity may make it more challenging, simply because the story's vision of the world is so relentlessly plain. It was important to her, and to others, to believe that children don't actually think or speak the way the children in Ender's Game think and speak.
~ Orson Scott Card
And you're the one who thought it was too risky to go through a gate. That's why we're such a great team, said Eric, We're both completely stupid about different things.
~ Orson Scott Card
Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement.
~ Orson Scott Card
Still, just because humans did it, too, did not make it sensible.
~ Orson Scott Card
Suriyawong had the irrational thought that the man ought really to wash his organs before jamming them back into his abdomen. It was so unsanitary.
~ Orson Scott Card
People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
~ Oscar Wilde
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe, and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings sublte memories with it, a line from a piece of music that you had ceased to play--I tell you Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.
~ Oscar Wilde
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
~ Oscar Wilde
The supreme vice is shallowness.
~ Oscar Wilde
He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.
~ Oscar Wilde
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other - by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.
~ Oscar Wilde