Quotes About Thought

Nigdy nie by?am do ko?ca pewna, czy naprawd? istniej?. Mog?am przecie? by? cieniem, my?l?, obrazem, który b?yskawicznie przemkn?? pod powiekami innego cz?owieka. Jak?eby inaczej? Wystarczy?o, ?ebym siedzia?a w milczeniu przez minut? czy dwie i ca?y ?wiat móg? o mnie zapomnie?.

it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion and dispute, that cumulative narrowing down of possibilities that led to the formation of accurate opinion. The students could be, as it were (he said), the rubbing post for the thought of his teacher.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do.

Well, it's true. If she ever had an original thought it would die of loneliness.

Gott lieben, das heißt, sich an ihm freuen, gerne an ihn denken, gern zu ihm beten.

All, however, are woven by these three Sisters-thought, action and desire- with which the ignorant build walls of mud and bricks of slime between themselves and truth; while the pure of heart weave from these radiant threads garments of celestial beauty.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

The devil['s] strongest weapon is his ability to conventionalize our Thought . . . we willfully remain the humble servants of every one else's ideas except our own . . . we have made ourselves the helpless slaves of the wicked accidental world.

In order to remain relevant, you must establish yourself as a thought leader in your industry.

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

He is therefore free to use me to give a good thought to a soul; and if I think this inspiration belongs to me, I would be like "the donkey carrying the relics"313 who believed the reverence paid to the saints was being directed to him.

In the same month that she began Story of a Soul, Thérèse wrote to her sister Léonie, "this thought of the brevity of life gives me courage, it helps me bear the weariness of the road...the hour of rest is approaching

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous." Richard M. Nixon

Reason is the first casualty in a drought.

This has suggested to some that the very structure of human thought is oppositional-that is to say, rational and associative, rather than linear and categorical.

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.

Knowledge of the thing cannot impede it; but at least we have the things we discover, if not in our hands, at least in thought, and there they are at your disposal, which inspires us to the illusory hope of enjoying a kind of dominion over them.

The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than any other thought.

Part of the beauty—and it is the original flaw in this type of literature, from which the famous Lundis are not exempt—lies in the impression made on the readers. It is a collective Venus, of which we have but one truncated limb if we confine ourselves to the thought of the author, for it is fully realised only in the minds of his readers. In them it finds completion.

Imagination, thought, may be admirable mechanisms but they can also be inert. Suffering alone sets them going.

Sentimos en un mundo, pensamos y nombramos en otro