Quotes About Thoughts

There are no evil thoughts, Mr. Rearden, Francisco said softly, except one: the refusal to think.

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.

He had to say; words were a lens to focus one's mind, and he could not use words for anything else tonight.

We are those who do not disconnect the values of their minds from the actions of their bodies, those who do not leave their values to empty dreams, but bring them into existence, those who give material form to thoughts, and reality to values.

Through the years the thought of suicide had occurred to him, not as an intention, but as one of the many possibilities among the chances of life.

Everything bad comes from the mind, because the mind asks too many questions. It is blessed to believe, not to understand.

And she thought, with a vicious thrill, of what these people would do if they read her mind in this moment; if they knew that she was thinking of a man in a quarry, thinking of his body with a sharp intimacy as one does not think of another's body but only of one's own. She smiled; the cold purity of her face prevented them from seeing the nature of that smile.

The bars on his windows were his old thoughts, thoughts he trusted were true, but which actually prevented him from venturing out into the Maze. His beliefs were holding him prisoner!

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

How much more attention people pay to their fears than to their memories!

freedom of expression sometimes presents a greater threat to an idea, because forbidden thoughts may circulate in secret, but what can be done when an important fact is lost in a flood of impostors, and the voice of truth becomes drowned out in an ungodly din?

Sì, esistono in me pensieri, intenzioni, speranze tremende, fantastiche, micidiali, e non ne so nulla. L'uomo si è mosso per andare alla scoperta di altri mondi, di altre civiltà, senza avere perlustrato a fondo, dentro di sé, i cortiletti, i camini, i pozzi, le porte sbarrate.

Ksi??k? mo?na czytelnikowi g?ow?, owszem przemeblowa? o tyle, o ile jakie? meble ju? w niej przed lektur? sta?y.

Because there may be thoughts, intentions and cruel hopes in my mind of which I know nothing, because I am a murderer unawares.

Cercavo invano di raccogliere pensieri che scivolavano lungo un piano inclinato minacciando di precipitare, e la perdita di coscienza, l'annientamento mi parvero un'indicibile, insperabile grazia.

If thoughts and emotions alone could cause things to happen, thousands of my contemporaries would have married the Beatles in 1964.

On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.

The human mind ... operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain.

Associations among concepts is thinking.

One of the most difficult things to remember is to remember to remember. Awareness begins with remembering what we tend to forget. Drifting through life on a cushioned surge of impulses is but one of many strategies of forgetting. Not only do we forget to remember, we forget that we live in a body with senses and feelings and thoughts and emotions and ideas.

Not only are we inescapably alone in the realms of our private thoughts, perceptions and feelings, but we are also, paradoxically, inescapably together in a world with others.

The collapsing of an empire. This changing word moves inexorably on. Thoughts bubble and the stiller the mind the more palpable the dazzling torrent of life becomes.

Reflective meditation is a way of translating thoughts into the language of feeling. It explores the relation between the way we think about and perceive things and the way we feel about them. We find that even the strongest, seemingly self-evident intuitions about ourselves are based on equally deep-seated assumptions. Gradually learning to see our life in another way through reflective meditation leads to feeling different about it as well.

The triumph of my logic gives me no pleasure.