Quotes About Thoughts

Controlling people's thoughts obviates the need to control their behaviour and the party has striven constantly to implant patriotic thoughts into the minds of the people.

This skin, this hair, all this outside stuff. It isn't me. It's just my package. It's like the wrapper around the sweet; it isn't the sweet itself. What we really are is all inside the package. All our feelings. All our good moods and bad moods. All our ideas, our cleverness, our love, that's what a person really is.

I was transformed...because I caught a glimpse of a revolutionary use for computers. We seized the opportunity to the computer as a general processor for symbols (hence thoughts) rather than just a speedy engine for arithmetic.

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

revelation always supposes that man is able to receive impressions or thoughts or inclinations from another than this phenomenal world, and in a way other than that usually employed.

One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocent self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

With the smoke of the dead sailor's cigar wreathing around him, Willie passed to thinking about death and life and luck and God. Philosophers are at home with such thoughts, perhaps, but for other people it is actual torture when these concepts--not the words, the realities--break through the crust of daily occurrences and grip the soul. A half hour of such racking meditation can change the ways of a lifetime.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

The word I was typing was always in the past while the word I was thinking of was always in the future, which left the present oddly uninhabited

what she found terrifying was the incoherence of his tirade, because she thought there was no greater violence than the one done to meaning.

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

Jak trzeba by ?y?, my?la?am, ?eby pasowa? do tego co si? akurat my?li.

Irene mai avea o banuiala: ca-si tinea in cap dorul de-acasa mic, facut ghem,ca nu cumva sa-l recunoasca. Ca atunci cand aparea, il reprima.Si ca, pentru a-si sufoca simturile,aseza pe ele cladiri intregi din gandurile ei.

Os varredores de rua estão trabalhando. Eles varrem as lâmpadas, varrem as ruas para fora da cidade, varrem o morar das casas, me varrem os pensamentos da cabeça, me varrem de uma perna para outra, me varrem os passos do andar.

Nature takes no notice of the thoughts of men.

It is a sure sign of troubled minds, the habit of quotation.

She turns her head away, but through the thin film of her veil he can see her skin glow. Because women will coax: tell me, just tell me something, tell me your thoughts; and this he has done.

It is a sure sign of troubled minds, the habit of quotation. "Whom

Perhaps I'll grow my beard, he thinks. It would save time. Only then, Hans would insist on committing another portrait against me.

A phrase runs through his head – was it Thomas More's? – 'the peace of the hen coop when the fox has run home'. He sees the scattered carcasses

Rosenzweig daringly criticizes Plato's dialogues because in them "the thinker knows his thoughts in advance," and moreover the other is only raising the objections the author thought of himself.

Only reading, she knew, could distract her from her obsessive thoughts and restore her sense of peace.

Only reading, she knew, could distract her from her obssessive thoughts and restore her sense of peace.

I like him, he thought in horror... shit. I like him.