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Quotes About Thought

It's almost noon, Trig," I said. "We've nearly run out of morning. A sad thought, morning being my favorite part of the day. My least favorite part of the day is from 2:34 to 4:56 in the afternoon.
~ Percival Everett
Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrateWith thine own hues all thou dost shine uponOf human thought or form.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person not our own…. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I'm... like a poet hidden In the light of thought Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
One wandering thought pollutes the day;
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The secret strength of things Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome Of Heaven is as a column, rests on thee, And what were thou and Earth and Stars and Sea If to the human mind's imaginings Silence and solitude were Vacancy?
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
He gave man speech, and speech created thought, which is the measure of the universe.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Science, Poetry, and Thought Are thy lamps; they make the lot Of the dwellers in a cot So serene, they curse it not.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.
~ Unknown
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
~ Unknown
Una sola palabra puede generar una chispa de inextinguible pensamiento
~ Unknown
Una sola sentencia puede considerarse como un todo, aunque puede hallarse en medio de una serie de partes no asimiladas; una sola palabra puede ser una chispa de inextinguible pensamiento.
~ Unknown
Schizoaffective disorder bridges the gap between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Bipolar disorder causes mood shifts. Schizophrenia is a thought disorder that makes its victims hallucinate. Schizoaffective is both a mood disorder and a thought disorder.)
~ Pete Earley
Do I really agree with this thought, or have I been pressured into believing it? How do I want to respond to this feeling – distract myself from it, repress it, express it or just feel it until it changes into something else?
~ Unknown
What was it? What could it-- His last thought was surprise.
~ Peter Benchley
Las traducciones son meras aproximaciones subjetivas. Y eso es todo lo que experimento respecto a cuanto digo: no es lo que estoy pensando sino lo máximo que puedo aproximarme a lo que pienso por medio del lenguaje, con sus defectuosas y constrictivas reducciones. Y por eso a menudo pienso que es mejor no decir nada que expresarme de una manera inexacta.
~ Peter Cameron
From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought this many, many times before. With perfect misunderstanding she interpreted his passivity as disdain. Wishing to hurt him, she slapped his face. Wishing to hurt her, he smiled brilliantly.
~ Peter Carey
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
~ Peter Drucker
I believe these ancient people experienced the Divine. But how they experienced God and therefore how they thought and wrote about God were filtered through
~ Unknown
I believe these ancient people experienced the Divine. But how they experienced God and therefore how they thought and wrote about God were filtered through their experience, when and where they existed.
~ Unknown
Life alone is precious, but conscious thought is the greatest gift the universe offers.
~ Peter F. Hamilton