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Quotes About Thought

True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.
~ Alexander Pope
Love passed, the muse appeared, the weatherof mind got clarity newfound;now free, I once more weave togetheremotion, thought, and magic sound.
~ Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Journal writing is, foremost, a way to order and reframe perspective.
~ Alexandra Johnson
El zekan?n bir aletidir yaln?zca. Zeka olmazsa hiçbir ?ey yap?lm?? olmaz.
~ Alexandra Lapierre
Ama Kardinal Hazretleri, izin verirseniz söyleyeyim. Biz, öteki ressamlar ellerimizle konu?uruz... - Olmad?, diyerek araya girdi yeniden Arezzo Piskoposu, kafayla konu?uyorsunuz... Alg? yoksa, dü?ünce de yoktur, görüntü de yok. Hatta ayn? ?ekilde, ?iir, konu?an resimdir... Resimse, Senyör Orazio, sessiz ?iirdir.
~ Alexandra Lapierre
Juliet shook her head. The thought of eating anything made her feel nauseous. "No thanks, I'm not hungry." "Oh yeah, the heartbreak diet," nodded Trudy sagely. "Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.
~ Alexandra Potter
La ponctuation, ce n'est pas de l'orthographe, c'est de la pensée.
~ Alexandre Vialatte
We should be sorry to be thought guilty of dogmatism, and there is always peril in generalizations.
~ Alfred Austin
Why from the plain truth should I shrink? In woods men feel; in towns they think. Yet, which is best? Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind. But feeling never wanders far, Content to fare with things that are.
~ Alfred Austin
Materialism is the metaphysics of those who refuse to be metaphysicians.
~ Alfred Binet
What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.
~ Alfred de Musset
I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us.
~ Jim Walsh
We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.
~ Tracy Morgan
When I have to score a film, I watch the movie first and then start thinking about it. And from that moment on, it is as if I were pregnant. I then have to deliver the child, so from that moment on, I think always about the music - even when I go to the grocery store, I think about it.
~ Ennio Morricone
I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.
~ Michael Haneke
Protestantism has actually put a man in the position of a country governed by secret police. The spy and eavesdropper, 'conscience,' watches over every motion of the mind, and all thought and action is for it a 'matter of conscience,' i.e. police business.
~ Max Stirner
I thought about how I'd play a vampire for awhile because I grew up watching vampire films and reading books.
~ Joseph Morgan
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
~ Swami Sivananda
Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
If you skew the endocrine system, you lose the pathways to self. When endocrine patterns change, it alters the way you think and feel. One shift in the pattern tends to trip another.
~ Hilary Mantel
A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
~ Bjornstjerne Bjornson
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
~ Salman Rushdie
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.
~ William Whewell
Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
~ Hans Bender