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Quotes About Thought

I'm past thinking,' said Sarah quietly.
~ Colin Dexter
O pensamento é uma qualidade própria da alma, que a si mesma se multiplica
~ Unknown
O pensamento é uma qualidade da alma, que a si mesma se multiplica
~ Unknown
Thinking is common to all.
~ Heraclitus
Wisdom is one thing. It is to know the thought by which all things are steered through all things.
~ Heraclitus of Ephesus
title of many of his books and ultimately his autobiography: Models of Man (1957), Models of Discovery (1977), Models of Thought (1979 and 1989), Models of Bounded Rationality (1982), and Models of My Life (1991).
~ Herbert A. Simon
For the rubble of history, which is undigested and therefore goes on blindly, does not lie so thickly on the ground as in our own consciousness.
~ Unknown
rational is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression
~ Herbert Marcuse
The stuff of thought is historical stuff?no matter how abstract, general, or pure it may become in philosophic or scientific theory.
~ Herbert Marcuse
Ethics has to recognize the truth, recognized in unethical thought, that egoism comes before altruism. The acts required for continued self-preservation, including the enjoyment of benefits achieved by such acts, are the first requisites to universal welfare. Unless each duly cares for himself, his care for all others is ended by death; and if each thus dies, there remain no others to be cared for.
~ Herbert Spencer
A great many people mistake opinions for thought.
~ Herbert V. Prochnow
Formerly men said that life was thought, but now we are told that life is will.
~ Herman Bavinck
She thought there was no greater violence than the one done to meaning.
~ Unknown
Not to say surprise no. Too smooth by half I've always thought him.
~ Unknown
At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do in our country. Where people are allowed to think and write differently, I thought, they will also walk differently.
~ Herta Muller
Who can take a single step with his head?
~ Herta Muller
T?cerea nu-i o pauz? în vorbire, ci o treab? în sine.
~ Herta Muller
I was (an am) unsure about how I am related to my old self, or to myself from year to year. The hormonal profile of an individual determines much of the manifest personality. If you skew the endocrine system,you loose the pathways to the self. When endocrine patterns change it alters the way you think and feel. One shift in the pattern tends to trip another.
~ Hilary Mantel
a head is heavier than you expect
~ Hilary Mantel
Gardiner, he thinks. It may not be proper to call
~ Hilary Mantel
how short the step, from dreaming to desiring to encompassing. . . the thought is father to the deed, and the deed is born raw, ugly, premature.
~ Hilary Mantel
We're incandescent and it doesn't seem fair." "Fair?" "I mean too much comes to some of us, not enought to all the rest of us. So few of us to do the thinking. I mean so few of us have to be so incandescent.
~ Hilda Doolittle
I wanted to house myself in SL's thinking. It was so big and well lit, like a large house sitting solid on the bank of a river.
~ Hilton Als
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
~ Hippocrates