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Quotes About Thought

When you say that you have a policy, you are signaling that your No is not a one-time message but an ongoing practice to which you have given a lot of thought. It is a signal of resolve, a sign that you will not budge.
~ William Ury
When you say that you have a policy, you are signaling that your No is not a one-time message but an ongoing practice to which you have given a lot of thought. It is a signal of resolve, a sign that you will not budge. Of course, this phrase is not to be used lightly or misleadingly as a rigid adversarial position; it works when it is indeed your policy, something you have thought through.
~ William Ury
PENSARE ALLA PACE senza PENSARE ALLA POVERTÀ è oggi certamente impossibile.
~ Wim Wenders
After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play. When I am in the Socratic
~ Winston Churchill
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.
~ Winston S. Churchill
A modern dictator with the resources of science at his disposal can easily lead the public on from day to day, destroying all persistency of thought and aim, so that memory is blurred by the multiplicity of daily news and judgment baffled by its perversion
~ Winston S. Churchill
It appears that the German losses in some of the principal combats were a good deal less than we thought at the time, and that reports on both sides were materially exaggerated.
~ Winston S. Churchill
And then perhaps in the evenings a real love of learning would come to those who were worthy—and why try to stuff it into those who are not?—and knowledge and thought would open the 'magic casements' of the mind.
~ Winston S. Churchill
I feared the wish was father to the thought.
~ Winston S. Churchill
No he vivido más que tú, sino sólo lo bastante para pensar de lejos.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Un milagro tan adicional como adicional es todo: lo impensable se puede pensar.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
We leven langer, maar minder nauwkeurig en in kortere zinnen.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Ku tej idei - ?e taniec stwarza muzyk? - par?a ludzko?? wszystkimi drogami swoimi, ona sta?a si? natchnieniem i met? mojego czasu, ku niej i ja d??y?em po spirali, coraz cia?niejsze zataczaj?c kr?gi. Ale w tej?e chwili zosta?em unicestwiony. Gdy? zda?em sobie spraw?, ?e my?l t? my?l? jedynie dla jej patosu!
~ Witold Gombrowicz
I do not believe in a non-erotic philosophy. I do not believe in any desexualized idea.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Der Satz der Mathematik drückt keinen Gedanken aus.
~ Unknown
You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.
~ Woody Allen
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
~ Woody Allen
Why was it so important that I would be thought of as a child molester? Why, given my unsullied life and the sheer illogic of the allegation, would it not be met with more skepticism?
~ Woody Allen
At that point, the thought I might need a criminal lawyer would never have blipped anywhere on my radar scope.
~ Woody Allen
The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind – a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house.
~ Woody Allen
When man has a virtuous thought,     Heaven will grant him support.
~ Wu Cheng'en
The first duty is to sacrifice to the gods and pray them to grant you the thought,words, and deeds likely to render your command most pleasing to the gods and bring yourself, your friends, and your city the fullest measure of affection and glory and advantage
~ Unknown
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Each of us, desperately clutching his identity amid the impalatable onward pour of Time and Thought, finds only in art-and chiefly in written art- means to halt that ceaseless, cruel drift.
~ Christopher Morley