Quotes About Thought

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

If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you that I hit Erik?' Stark asked me in a pleasant, nonchalant voice.

If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you if it hit Erik?

Agitation due to circumstances occurs when because of an external incident, you follow a thought, and your mind becomes agitated and scatters into a disturbing emotion. When that happens, keep the attitude of "There is no need to do anything!" Train in loving kindness and compassion, disenchantment, means and knowledge, and devotion. Following that, persevere in the practice as at the time of the view. That will clear it.

the universe doesn't exist without a perceiver of that universe.") All

In fact, in his book Prometheus Rising, Robert Anton Wilson

Arry thought her mind must be tired. It would not, in a sensible fashion, lie down and rest.

The wind pounced on them hard. It had blown some of the cloud away and stretched the rest across the sky like rags on a loom to make a rug. A blue and white and gray rug like that would b pretty, thought Arry. But how do I know that? Do I know it?

Ter calma e uma alma forte, limpa e sincera, assim tudo sairá bem. Não sentir-se só nem débil, porque detrás de cada pessoa há exércitos poderosos que não podemos conceber nem sequer sonhar. Quando se eleva o pensamento, não há mal que possa alcançar. O único inimigo que se deve temer é a nós mesmos.

The body is literally manufactured and sustained by mind.

Paradoxical thinking requires that we embrace a view of the world in which opposites are joined, so that we can see the world clearly and see it whole...The result is a world more complex and confusing than the one made simple by either-or thought - but that simplicity is merely the dullness of death. When we think together we reclaim the life force in the world, in our students, in ourselves.

We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous.

Thou canst not recognize not-being (for this is impossible), nor couldst thou speak of it, for thought and being are the same thing.

for "to be thought" and "to be" are the same thing.

It is the same thing that can be thought and for the sake of which the thought exists;

to gar auto noein estin te kai einai

For this shall never be proved, that the things that are not are; and do thou restrain thy thought from this way of inquiry. Nor let habit force thee to cast a wandering eye upon this devious track, or to turn thither thy resounding ear or thy tongue; but do thou judge the subtle refutation of their discourse uttered by me.

Primo Levi laid bare the oldest function assigned to music. Music, he writes, was felt to be a "malediction." It was a "hypnosis of continuous rhythm that annihilates thought and numbs pain.

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

Pretty soon it would all be happening at the speed of thought, before it could actually happen, so that nothing would ever have to happen again. You'd only think things had happened, and if anything ever did happen, you wouldn't know the difference.

Censorship and thought control can exist only in secrecy and darkness.

But when you write something down, you have to think it all the way through. Sometimes, I'm not even sure how I feel about something until I write a story about it. I figure it out while I'm writing the story.

It's so hard to think in winter. The world seems confined in the space of your heart; you can't see beyond yourself.

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.