Quotes About Thought

Exactly, I will lay down the law for nobody, not even myself. The thought of death and the afterlife saves me from doing any more. . . . As the thought of Eternity helps me.

She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.

The army leaves me time to think, and saves me from the battle of life.

That was all her prayer—not for his soul or his righteousness, but that he might not be wasted. And while he slept, for hours and hours, she thought and prayed for him.

No matter how compelling or beautiful they may be, words appeal in the main to the linear, thinking mind that thinks in words.

it is utterly impossible for any human mind, no matter how brilliant, to think of more than one thing at any given time.

not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

this noticeable in the South, where theology and religious philosophy are on this account a long way behind the North, and where the religion of the poor whites is a plain copy of Negro thought and methods.

So here we stand among thoughts of human unity, even through conquest and slavery; the inferiority of black men, even if forced by fraud; a shriek in the night for the freedom of men who themselves are not yet sure of their right to demand it. This is the tangle of thought and afterthought wherein we are called to solve the problem of training men for life. Behind

But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.

A thought is a substance, producing the thing that is imagined by the thought.

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it.

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it. Whatever

O sight of pity, shame and dole! O fearful thought - a convict soul.

There is, in sanest hours, a consciousness, a thought that rises, independent, lifted out from all else, calm, like the stars, shining eternal

Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.

Freud's fundamental thought, on which these remarks are based, is formulated by the assumption that "consciousness comes into being at the site of a memory trace.

Die Rede erobert den Gedanken, aber die Schrift beherrscht ihn.

61I am prepared to... assert that inspiration has something in common with a convulsion, and that every sublime thought is accompanied by a more or less violent nervous shock which has its repercussions in the very core of the brain.

When indeed you positively press your face, so to speak, against the crystalline window of your eyes, your mind is apt to become a perfect vacuum. (Out Of The Deep)

It is in the mind of a single person that creative ideas and concepts are born.

Loyalty to a party, Einstein felt, meant surrendering some independence of thought. Such conformity confounded him. "How an intelligent man can subscribe to a party I find a complete mystery

Tolerance of free expression and independence of thought, he repeatedly argued, were the core values that Americans, to his delight, most cherished.

Einstein once said, "but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.