Quotes About Thought

Here, as elsewhere, the gain of creation consists always in the growth of individual minds, which live and aspire, as flowers bloom and birds sing, in the midst of morasses; and in the continual development of that thought, the thought of human destiny, which is given to eternity adequately to express, and which ages of failure only seemingly impede.

Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.

Il pensiero era così forte, erano braccia che aprivano le costole. Come se l'altro stesse cercando il tuo cuore dal lato opposto della città, attraverso i muri di macchine e cemento.

The mind is not sex-typed.

Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations," she went on, "are all too frequently those who by our own words and acts ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism: The right to criticize, The right to hold unpopular beliefs, The right to protest, The right to independent thought.

So dark. Endless darkness, eternal. It was not the absence of light that was so frightening as the absence of thought, of knowledge, of comprehension. Our lives, the lives of the living will go on. The sun shines, the moons rise, we will laugh and talk, and he will know nothing, feel nothing. Nothing. So final. It will come to us all. It will come to me.

Criticism does demand a certain kind of authority, but what about the authority of not really being sure what you think?

As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.

She makes her little house to shine, she thought.

Philosophy is one of the ways to use complicated sentences to explain simple concepts.

The power of thought able to search the Universe for truth is a fragile equilibrium between secretions of a few vital glands.

Molto più tardi avrei imparato che il pensiero non si affaccia spontaneamente alla porta del nascosto. Non basta voler penetrare nell'inconscio perché la mente venga dietro. Il pensiero temporeggia, va avanti poi indietro, esita, sta in agguato ma poi quando viene il momento giusto, si ferma davanti alla porta come un cane da punta, rimane paralizzato. Poi, è il padrone che deve far alzare la selvaggina.

Clarity comes from engagement, not thought!

Our brains tend to reinforce what we already believe.

a belief is nothing more than a thought that you've decided is significant and true.

I liked Hell, I liked to go there alone relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone. The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then? I thought it was the worst, thought nothing worse could come. Then nothing did, and no one.

As passion's object, dig with your ampersand: be cold & hot. The receptive earth will come to transform the root-end that your planting hand cut & abandoned, to new chrysanthemum. Heartfelt thought, drop your guard, keep clear, be slow; double your careful opposites & grow.

Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.

Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.

My Brain is the key that sets me free.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.