Quotes About Thought

There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?

Imagine about anything instead of assume about it.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important.

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind.

Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart - and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn.

Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.

Love must be the first thought and the last thought of the day, if you wish to live in peace and happiness.

Peace is only a thought away.

He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.

Peace is never more than one thought away.

When your mind is tranquil and at peace with the universe, when it has become void of all thought - you become meditation.

Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

Shakespeare: …the best way to peace is to have a still and quiet conscience. Or none at all, thought Gamache.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.