Quotes About Thought

Silence is just as likely to indicate the most profound ideas forming, the deepest energies being summoned.

It's not faith you need. Only rationality

A poem needs understaning through the senses. The point of diving in a lake, is not immediately to swim to the shore, but to be in the lake; to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out, it is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

Yes, I can talk and think at the same time. Most people can, though I suppose you wouldn't know that from personal experience. Elena (Bitten)

Sometimes Winston imagined he had devised a policy when all he had done was coin a phrase.

way to the quarry and picked out a stone he liked. He had brought it back on a borrowed pony two days later. But people forgave him his transgressions, partly because he was a truly exceptional stonecarver, and partly because he was so likeable – a trait he definitely had not inherited from his mother, in Philip's opinion. Philip had given some thought to what Jack would

thought dismally. No doubt a more modest future awaited him.

Sin embargo, un exceso de disciplina podía acabar con el pensamiento crítico.

Daisy thought of one of Churchill's jibes about Attlee: "An empty car drew up and Clem got out." The man he called a nonentity had thrashed him.

Ya está —pensó Grigori—. Esto es una revolución.»

solo porque alguien hiciera una pregunta no significaba que hubiera que responder.

Thought is sequential, successive, one-dimensional, while the real world presents itself as a multidimensional, non-successive, simultaneous pattern of infinite richness and variety; and trying to make the one grasp the other is like trying to appreciate a beautiful landscape by looking through a narrow slit in a fence or trying to take in a Renoir painting by microscope alone.

Remember - no limitation can be placed on you by any one but yourself. With your imagination you have a unique ability to draw on an infinite source of supply. There is power in thought.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought.

Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with

All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres.

The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate. The longer you can stop thought, the more power you gain.

The next step in meditation is not just to focus, but to stop thought completely without having to focus; you gain a tremendous amount of personal power.

I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.

Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.