Quotes About Thought

Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Doubt is merely a thought. When experience proves it wrong, it will quickly go away.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

It is the energy projected by an individual's own mind which creates his experience.

It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.

That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever.

Whether the object of your faith is real or false, you will get results. Your subconscious mind responds to the thought in your mind. Look upon faith as a thought in your mind and that will suffice.

The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.