Quotes About Thought

Biliyor musunuz, güzel bir sesin kendisi bir fikirdir benim kan?mca, sahibi olan kad?n istediÄŸi kadar budala olsun; müziÄŸin korkunç yan? da bu.

My plan was ill conceived, against convention, and, above all, silly. I loved it the moment I thought of it.

To think one thought meant thinking the opposite thought, and no sooner did that second thought destroy the first thought than a third thought rose up to destroy the second.

The mind cannot win over matter, for once the mind is asked to do too much, it quickly shows itself to be matter as well.

The rampant, totally mystifying force of contradiction. I understand now that each fact is nullified by the next fact, that each thought engenders an equal and opposite thought. Impossible to say anything without reservation.

isn't it intriguing that thought cannot exist without language, and since language is a function of the brain, we would have to say that language---the ability to experience the world through symbols---is in some sense a physical property of human beings, which proves that the old mind-body duality is so much nonsense, doesn't it? Adieu, Descartes. The mind and body are one.

More often than not, what stirs the imagination is best kept in the imagination, and Gwyn is aware of that, she is wise enough to know that the distance between thought and deed can be enormous, a gulf as large as the world itself.

It's funny I want to write a poem.

Based on the ideas of the linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf, this is the view that language doesn't just change minds by transferring thoughts from one head to another; it configures how people make sense of the world, including about space, time, and causality.

So the first Seers, watching the wanderings of thought within their own minds, discovered that there was something which came into action when thinking momentarily stopped. That Something was the first faint intimation of the soul. Thus the science of soul-discovery was born and the ancients began to teach men how to know the truth about themselves. In

The Landscape becomes reflective, human and thinks itself though me. I make it an object, let it project itself and endure within my painting....I become the subjective consciousness of the landscape, and my painting becomes its objective consciousness.

I am a consciousness. The landscape thinks itself through me.

This teaching is to live as we think, otherwise, sooner or later, we end up thinking as we lived.

Parenting gets to the core of what should motivate every thought, desire, word, decision, or action that every human being has ever taken.

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

It is well established that you will feel uncomfortable when there is a discrepancy between what you think and what you do. This is known as cognitive dissonance.

An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.

Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers? If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think whatever you're told.

Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think.

The tragedy of contemporary philosophy is that it has been castrated.

But that's okay, he thought. If your client is truly innocent, the pressure to win is overwhelming. But a guilty client? Hey, if you lose, justice is done.

It is the mark of an educated man to be able to evaluate a thought without accepting it. ARISTOTLE

Freud was not a scientist, although that's the way he thought of himself.

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.