Quotes About Thought

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

Every mental process, or every mental action, that takes place in our wide-awake consciousness will, if it has depth of feeling or intensity, enter the unconscious field, and after it has developed itself according to the line of its original nature, will return to the conscious side of the mind.

The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced.

Your thought will be as brilliant as the brilliancy you think into your thought, and how much brilliancy you will think into your thought will depend upon how high your realization of brilliancy happens to be at the time. When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.

A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.

The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into his presence something that will suggest a new line of thinking and feeling. The master mind, however, can change his thought whenever he so desires. A change of scene is not necessary, because such a mind is not controlled from without. A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.

À la différence de l'analyse, qui se contente de décomposer un ensemble en ses éléments constituants et de la critique qui ne fait que juger, la déconstruction est un démontage consistant à mettre à nu ce qui dans une pensée, un texte, en constitue le point aveugle, impensé - encore un terme issu de Heidegger.

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. The judicious quoter, too, helps on what is much needed in the world, a freer circulation of good thoughts, pure feelings, and pleasant fancies.

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief.

About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of slavery.

In the meantime, the works of Gordon, Lupyan, and others suggests that words are not just convenient labels for things; rather, they are extremely powerful mental devices.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

When every action and thought is geared to the building of a new society, there is little room left for feelings.

When I write, I am trying through the movement of my fingers to reach my head. I'm trying to build a word ladder up to my brain.

Exist? un cuvânt minunat:nimic.Nu te gândi la nimic.GândeÈ™te-te doar la clovnul care plânge în cad?,È™i c?ruia papucii îi È™iroiesc a cafea.

Particularly significant for the future development of Guderian's military thought were the linguistic abilities he began to acquire at school. He developed excellent French and good English.

Essentially the film is about the importance of rational thought. We should draw our conclusions from the evidence available rather than from hearsay and try not to be influenced by our preconceptions. We should strive to see what we can see for ourselves rather than what we would like to see.

I thought: Yes, to live the life of the mind is the truest form of happiness.

The fact is that 99 out of 100 adults spare themselves the trouble of rational thought 99% of the time (studies have not shown this, I have just invented the statistics so I should not say The fact is, but I would be surprised if the true figures were very different).

The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think, and next to the right to think is the right to express that thought without fear.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.