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Quotes About Thought

When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.
~ Jon Landau
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
~ Blaise Pascal
Examine the nature of hatred; you will find that it is no more than a thought. When you see it as it is, it will dissolve like a cloud in the sky.
~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.
~ Murray Bookchin
It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.
~ Pope Leo XIII
The sound of water says what I think.
~ Zhuangzi
Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
~ Marianne Williamson
The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.
~ Dion Fortune
You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.
~ Ernest Holmes
No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.
~ Laozi
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
~ James Gleick
The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.
~ Albert Einstein
Introspection is always retrospection
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action.
~ Leonid Feodorov
In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.
~ Madame de Stael
All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.
~ Albert Einstein
What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.
~ Susan Sontag
One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.
~ Dalai Lama
To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.
~ Novalis
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
~ Albert Einstein
Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
~ Amos Bronson Alcott