Quotes About Thought

There is some Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all that he did and thought.

The Arrow" I THOUGHT of your beauty, and this arrow, Made out of a wild thought, is in my marrow. There's no man may look upon her, no man, As when newly grown to be a woman, Tall and noble but with face and bosom Delicate in colour as apple blossom. This beauty's kinder, yet for a reason I could weep that the old is out of season.

Jerome. That is a terribly wild thought. I hope you don't believe all you say. Paul Ruttledge. Perhaps not. I only know that I want to upset everything about me. Have you not noticed that it is a complaint many of us have in this country? and whether it comes from love or hate I don't know, they are so mixed together here.

He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrow-bone. (A Prayer For Old Age)

Only in rapid and subtle thought, or in faint accents heard in the quiet of the mind, can the thought of the spirit come to us but little changed; for a mind, that grasps objects simultaneously according to the degree of its liberation, does not think the same thought with the mind that sees objects one after another.

I am content to follow to its source Every event in action or in thought; Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot!

Socrates. The wise are doubtful, and I should not be singular if, like them, I also doubted.

Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.

Does this current deterioration and corruption of language, imprecision of thought, and so forth scare you—or is it just a decadent phase? AUDEN It terrifies me. I try by my personal example to fight it; as I say, it's a poet's role to maintain the sacredness of language.

Aunque sea una gran hazaña añadir algo, aunque sólo sea una pizca, a la suma del conocimiento humano, más grande todavía es añadir un pensamiento. Para un hombre, es mejor intentar ser a la vez poeta y naturalista que ser demasiado naturalista y pasar por alto la belleza de las cosas, o demasiado poeta y no entenderlas o no poder ver siquiera las bellezas escondidas que sólo se revelan tras una observación atenta.

A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated all possible factors and have determined that risk

You look the conflict with your ego & i look the same conflict with thought.Your ego never gives me a second chance..we are left to suffer!

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

What I thought I developed all of those years ago was a pattern to understand communication.

Anyone in a position to overcome barriers to free thought and communication should do so.

In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised.

It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!