Quotes About Thoughts

take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool...

With David, I sometimes sigh, "How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my hear? How long will my enemy triumph over me?"1

Cualquier pensamiento dañino, en la mente de cualquier hombre, puede en cualquier momento destruir el mundo.

intentar escapar de los malos pensamientos es salir a buscarlos.

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not turning into phantoms. We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and our future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.

As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.

My memory, sir, is like a garbage disposal.

Mi memoria a veces se parece demasiado al olvido.

The exchange of thoughts is a condition necessary for all love, all friendship and all real dialogue. Two men who can speak together can enrich and broaden themselves indefinitely.

One of the habits of the mind is the invention of horrible imaginings. - The Total Library

Mi memoria, señor, es como vaciadero de basuras.

Uno de los hábitos de la mente es la invención de imaginaciones horribles.

Ebrio de insomnio y de vertiginosa dialéctica

Hay quien busca el amor de una mujer para olvidarse de ella, para no pensar más en ella.

None of us are sovereign over others, although to such ill-omened thoughts we cling.

and though it is perhaps too facile to say that he was already in love with her, it is certainly true that from that moment on she was a permanent element in his mind.

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.

I am a bear of little brain.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act…. The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

So, too, we may imagine that the sight of the hieroglyphs of Egypt, and the knowledge that thoughts could be conveyed by them, suggested to some Hittite genius the idea of inventing a similar means of intercommunication for his own people.

And who can say whether my thoughts, independent of weight and time and the obstacles of matter, are not at the same moment being caught by mysterious, delicate, but unconscious receivers in the brain of an inhabitant of Mars as well as in the brain of the dog who barks outside?

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

Paduan fikir, buku; himpun kuasa, kubu.