Thought Quotes

The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.

~ Margaret Landon

The deeds of our hands is directly proportional to the thoughts of our hearts.

~ Paul Bamikole

I look up to as God every person, thing or thought that makes life worth living one day longer

~ Prabhukrishna M

..it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion and dispute, that cumulative narrowing down of possibilities that led to the formation of accurate opinion. The students could be, as it were (he said), the rubbing post for the thought of his teacher.

~ Malcolm Bradbury

I looked at what he built, and to me it explained the stars.

~ Stephen King

You don't need to change everything in your life instantly. All you need is one positive thought.

~ Bryant Mcgill

It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Never underestimate the power of thought.

~ Anonymous

Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.

~ Flann O'brien

As the days went by, my frustration festered like an outhouse during a Jamaican summer.

~ Andrew Cormier

Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.

~ James Davison Hunter

One positive thought is the victory you need today!

~ Bryant Mcgill

We are asking if thought can be aware of itself. That is rather a complex question, and requires very careful observation. Thought has created wars through nationalism, through sectarian religions. Thought has created all this; God has not created the hierarchy of the church--the pope, all the robes, all the rituals, the swinging of the incense, the candles. All that paraphernalia that goes on in a cathedral or in a church is put together by thought, copied, some of it, from the ancient Egyptians, from the ancient Hindus, and Hebrews. It is all thought. So God is created by thought.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Looked at again and again half consciously by a mind thinking of something else, any object mixes itself so profoundly with the stuff of thought that it loses its actual form and recomposes itself a little differently in an ideal shape which haunts the brain when we least expect it.

~ Virginia Woolf

We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think us!

~ John Cowper Powys

Richness and fat does need,In logic clever fine deeds,But paunches never do breed,Fine thoughts or sublime seeds.[45] - 2

~ Munindra Misra

The chief problem with television is that, for those who watch it consistently, it undermines and eventually destroys the ability to think. This is because it communicates primarily images, not by words, and words are necessary if we are to perceive logical connections and make judgments as to what is right and wrong.

~ James Montgomery Boice

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

~ Julien Torma

But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block...

~ David Mitchell

I love Nigerians becouse they're extra ordinary people they make impossible to be possible.

~ Hamzatribah

in every 1st October we Nigerians helps very few of us celebrate there independence, very. soon. we will celebrate our own.

~ Hamzatribah

Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.

~ Vladimir I. Vernadsky

We are in front of a fountain, whose jet she seems to be watching. 'Those are your thoughts and mine. Look where they all start from, how high they reach, and then how it's still prettier when they fall back. And then they dissolve immediately, driven back up with the same strength, then there's that broken spurt again, that fall ... and so on indefinitely.

~ André Breton

A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science:'The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take place.''The measure of the probability of an event is the ratio of the number of cases favourable to that event, to the total number of cases favourable or contrary, and all equally possible' (equally like to happen).From these definitions it follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptation, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an event may happen or fail. With the degree of information which we possess concerning the circumstances of an event, the reason we have to think that it will occur, or, to use a single term, our expectation of it, will vary. Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave neither room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

~ George Boole

Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought.

~ Alastair Pilkington

The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call Lobachevsky the Copernicus of Geometry [as did Clifford], for geometry is only a part of the vaster domain which he renovated; it might even be just to designate him as a Copernicus of all thought.

~ Eric Temple Bell

The sovereign people determines life and death and happiness under conditions where experience and experiment alike show thought to be most difficult.The intolerable burden of thought.

~ Walter Lippmann

If you have never truly questioned what you believe, I would question whether you truly believe it.

~ D.a. Simpson

The work of human thought should withstand the test of brutal, naked reality. If it cannot, it is worthless. Probably only those things are worthwhile which can preserve their validity in the eyes of a man threatened with instant death.

~ Czesław Miłosz

No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.

~ Max Stirner

The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced.

~ Christian D. Larson

Stay inside your head long enough and you may get trapped there.

~ Jayme K.

There was no style in nature.

~ Jens Peter Jacobsen

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

~ Edward Teller

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context—in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks.

~ Isidor Isaac Rabi

How many times have I turned away? How may voices have I chosen to ignore, my own not least of all? How far into darkness, into shadow, must one crawl not to see? And how can the blind walk out? - C.V. Dreesman, The Marksmith

~ C.v. Dreesman

Knowledge is power, I said at last. Let's do it.

~ Karen Lord

Do not let any question goes out of your mind without doing something about it.

~ Hamzat Haruna Ribah

David Foster Wallace: Because I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then.

~ David Lipsky