Quotes About Thought

Ford kept his hands on his head. "Is that really necessary? I was arrested by Serenity Services a week ago, and they didn't even cuff me." The argument that you don't need cuffs because you were arrested without them a week ago is a winner , Sadie thought.

God's questions are often designed not to extract answers but to provoke thought.

But philosophy is one thing, praxis is another.

An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

Let every man look before he leaps.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Consciousness is a disease.

Los vagos son ellos, los que dicen que trabajan y no hacen sino aturdirse y ahogar el pensamiento".

Quando um homem adormecido e inerte na cama sonha algo, o que é que existe mais, ele como consciência que sonha, ou o seu sonho?

No, yo no soy un vago! Mi imaginación no descansa. Los vagos son ellos, los que dicen que trabajan y no hacen sino aturdirse y ahogar el pensamiento.

No te parece que esa idea de la necesidad no es sino la forma suprema que el azar toma en nuestra mente?

Hay que convertir la reflexión en instinto si se quiere que llegue a ser instintiva la reflexión.

Y pensar es dudar y nada más que dudar. Se cree, se sabe, se imagina sin dudar; ni la fe, ni el conocimiento, ni la imaginación suponen duda y hasta la duda las destruye, pero no se piensa sin dudar. Y es la duda lo que de la fe y del conocimiento, que son algo estático, quieto, muerto, hace pensamiento, que es dinámico, inquieto, vivo.

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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")

Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.

writing gives the mind a disciplined means of expression.

To pursue mental operations to any depth, a person has to learn to concentrate attention. Without focus, consciousness is in a state of chaos.

As J. S. Mill wrote, "No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

Thus we might think of consciousness as intentionally ordered information. This

You can drive a car all your life without knowing how the engine works, because the goal of driving is to get from one place to the next, regardless how it's done. But to live without understanding how we think, why we feel the way we feel, what directs our actions is to miss what is most important in life, which is the experience itself.

The shape and content of life depend on how attention has been used.

If rules make a framework for the mind to climb about in, why should the mind not climb right out?