Quotes About Thoughts

The result is that much reading robs the mind of all elasticity, as the continual pressure of a weight does a spring, and that the surest way of never having any thoughts of your own is to pick up a book every time you have a free moment. The practice of doing this is the reason erudition makes most men duller and sillier than they are by nature and robs their writings of all effectiveness: they are in Pope's words: For ever reading, never to be read.

As Epictetus says, Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.

That you should write down valuable ideas that occur to you as soon as possible goes without saying: we sometimes forget even what we have done, so how much more what we have thought. Thoughts, however, come not when we but when they want. On

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance.

Assim como todo excesso numa atividade costuma levar ao contrário do que se pretendia, as palavras servem de fato para tornar os pensamentos compreensíveis, mas só até certo ponto. Quando esse ponto é ultrapassado, elas tornam os pensamentos a serem comunicados mais e mais obscuros. Encontrar tal ponto é uma tarefa do estilo e uma questão da capacidade de julgar, pois toda palavra supérflua age diretamente contra seu objetivo.

The result is that much reading robs the mind of all elasticity, as the continual pressure of a weight does a spring, and that the surest way of never having any thoughts of your own is to pick up a book every time you have a free moment.

Fundamentally it is only our own basic thoughts that possess truth and life, for only these do we really understand through and through. The thoughts of another that we have read are crumbs from another's table, the cast-off clothes of an unfamiliar guest.

O Estado não proibirá ninguém de portar continuamente pensamentos sobre assassinato e envenenamento, desde que saiba com certeza que o medo do carrasco e da guilhotina a todo momento obstará os efeitos desse querer.

Hence much reading deprives the mind of all elasticity, as a weight continually pressing upon it does a spring, and the most certain means of never having any original thoughts is to take a book in hand at once, at every spare moment. This practice is the reason why scholarship makes most men more unintelligent and stupid than they are by nature, and deprives their writings of all success; they are, as Pope says— 'For ever reading, never to be read'.

Apenas os pensamentos próprios são verdadeiros e têm vida, pois somente eles são entendidos de modo autêntico e completo. Pensamentos alheios, lidos, são como as sobras da refeição de outra pessoa, ou como as roupas deixadas por um hóspede na casa.

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Il traffico nella sua testa sembrava aver smesso di credere nei semafori. Il risultato fu uno strepito continuo, alcuni brutti incidenti e alla fine il blocco totale.

Y el Aire estaba plagado de pensamientos y Cosas que Decir. Pero en momentos como ésos sólo se dicen Pequeñas Cosas. Las Grandes Cosas permanecen dentro, sin decirse.

His mind was full of cupboards, cluttered with secret pleasures.

before I could get the words out of my mouth.

Once a possibility has been put in your mind—especially one as horrible as necrotizing fasciitis—the possibility does not easily go away.

The white western patriarchal ordering of things requires that we believe there is an inherent conflict between what we feel and what we think - between poetry and theory. We are easier to control when one part of ourselves is split from another, fragmented, off balance.

Speaking at last becomes a vice, like drinking. And why speak, if words do not cloak thoughts ?

You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

But feelings, no matter how strong or "ugly," are not a part of who you are. They are the radio stations your mind listens to if you don't give it something better to do.

I can almost never say what I'm thinking at any given moment. I would have been stabbed to death years ago.

His eyes are so clear and blue that nothing but clichés enter my mind.

I go to sleep feeling impressed with the powers of the mind. *

I sometimes doubt whether even the friends whose kind thoughts turned downwards me that evening from the distant South and West could realize how cheerful is the recollection of the Christmas spent in the solitude and cold of the desert.