Quotes About Thought

To express the love of two lovers by the marriage of two complementary colours, their blending and their contrast, the mysterious vibrations of related tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of a light tone against a dark background. To express hope by some star. Someone's passion by the radiance of the setting sun. That's certainly no realistic trompe l'oeil, but something that really exists, isn't it?

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

But he never makes a call to ask for help. He cannot put his finger on precisely what is stopping him. He has had time to think about it. It remains an enigma. He scoured the internet in search of advice for pathological procrastinators. He drew up lists of what he had to lose, what he would be risking, and what he had to gain. It made no difference. He calls no-one.

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.

Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

V S Naipaul] brings to [literary narrative] an extraordinary capacity for making art out of lucid thought. Observe hard, think even harder, figure out what you are thinking in the simplest, clearest language, and you will arrive at narrative: that is his credo.

It would have been more sensible if I had gone for help, Felicity thought, feeling his arm like an iron yoke across her shoulders, and a chill seeping out from his wet clothes into her side.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts

Dare to think for yourself.

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

There was present that night at Henley's, by right of propinquity or of accident, a man full of the secret spite of dullness, who interrupted from time to time and always to check or disorder thought;

I had a thought for no one's but your ears; / That you were beautiful, and that I strove / To love you in the old high way of love;

I wondered briefly if cats also came back after death, then dismissed the thought because as far as I had ever been able to tell, cats do not have a purpose.

It was the first time in a long while that I thought about how small a dog I was as Max. It did not seem right that a dog should be the same size as a duck.

Thought applies to an idea expressed or unexpressed that comes into your mind as a result of reflection, and reflection takes time.

each new decision that a child or an adult makes in a given set of circumstances begins patterns of thought that later create a tremendous impact in his life.

Every farthing of the cost,All the dreaded cards foretell,Shall be paid, but from this nightNot a whisper, not a thought,Not a kiss nor look be lost.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

As you always taught me, men who think have proven to be the most dangerous of all over the course of history," I said. "So have you been a dangerous man?"" I laughed. "I would like to think so.

And this brought forth a dream and soon enough/ This dream itself had all my thought and love

I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns.