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Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.
— Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
My lungs falter short in breath by just the very thought of you.
— Gabriella Jording
When all the people in the world become technology and technology becomes the people, we shall see a new world!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
To be successful, you must find peace of mind, acquire the material needs of life, and above all, attain happiness. All of these evidences of success begin in the form of thought impulses.
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
Emotion is the timbre of thought.
— Clifford Cohen
The philosophers make still another objection: "What you gain in rigour," they say, "you lose in objectivity. You can rise toward your logical ideal only by cutting the bonds which attach you to reality. Your science is infallible, but it can only remain so by imprisoning itself in an ivory tower and renouncing all relation with the external world. From this seclusion it must go out when it would attempt the slightest application.
— Henri Poincaré, The Value of Science
Pure analysis puts at our disposal a multitude of procedures whose infallibility it guarantees; it opens to us a thousand different ways on which we can embark in all confidence; we are assured of meeting there no obstacles; but of all these ways, which will lead us most promptly to our goal? Who shall tell us which to choose? We need a faculty which makes us see the end from afar, and intuition is this faculty. It is necessary to the explorer for choosing his route; it is not less so to the one following his trail who wants to know why he chose it.
— Henri Poincaré, The Value of Science
Whatever you struggle with is an indication there is key information you haven't accessed yet.
— Phumi Ngwane
Expectations from others is your biggest weakness.
— Devesh Tamta
My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel
— I know not where I am nor what I do.
To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist!
— Deyth Banger
There is always a zone where somebody is nobody
—  there is always a zone where somebody is somebody and there is always a zone where nobody is nobody
I cannot continue to live a life I am not born to live! I cannot continue to exert my full strength and energy on that which least matter to the real essence of my life. I am born to arise and do something for something will make me something and anything will make me anything! Arise oh my soul and do something!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Not everyone may not think the way you do.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Let's go deeper and deeper... How you know that's night and morning what does it makes you to think??... Yeah, yeah the time... I know that, but let's removed it from the world... so reality it doesn't exist...!... How??? how?? You can't remove it, didn't you said that??Or my mistake?!It gets sun set in the morning and in the night it gets sun out... That's false thought unfortunately, what you see is just a shadow... Vsauce proved it!So how do you understand the differences between24:00 - PM which is counted as middle between the other day which is yesterday, if I can call it like this or after few minutes which will mean 59 it will become tomorrow, if it's Monday 24:00 Pm after 59 minutes it will become Tuesday... - (It's kind a interesting isn't it??)... now let's go little more far and the other is morning 02:01 which is the morning AM of the other day which is now yesterday. Strange!
— Deyth Banger
When the purse becomes empty, the mind becomes full of issues.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
…every feeling is the perception of a truth...
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding
The mind leans on [innate] principles every moment, but it does not come so easily to distinguish them and to represent them distinctly and separately, because that demands great attention to its acts, and the majority of people, little accustomed to think, has little of it.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding
But a human being, she, she, cannot simply exist; she is a hurricane, every thought bending and crossing its coherence inside her, nothing will let her be, not for a moment. Every emotion, every thought, is invaded by another.
— Nadine Gordimer, The Pickup
The mind is not only capable of knowing [innate ideas], but further of finding them in itself; and if it had only the simple capacity to receive knowledge…it would not be the source of necessary truths…
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding
For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection. They are as necessary thereto as the muscles and sinews are for walking, although we do not at all think of them.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding
For every nonsense that is written, there is a sense behind the ‘non’. Not until we go behind the ‘non’, we shall least see the sense. If we stand in front of the nonsense, the ‘non’ shall always face us. It may only take a step taking to go behind the 'non' to see the sense the ‘non’ is obstructing. There are so many people who quit so quickly just because they look at the non in front of the sense and they conclude that sense can never come after ‘non’.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It will be awesome, if the people had the chance all stuff which surround them to see them as larger as possible so to be differences like you are a mice or something like this.... - I'm sure that people will see stuff which as normal size everything they won't see!
— Deyth Banger
Non sense discussions, have you ever thought that most discussions which you have are useless, pointess?? It's true and that's why I never go out.
— Deyth Banger
When it is mid week, pause and ponder! The very single days we disregard are what become the very years we wished to have used effectively and efficiently. If we disregard today, we shall remember our had I know tomorrow. Time changes therefore think of the changing times.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Our feelings are our guidance.The most powerful energy on this planet is our thought. It creates our reality. What we focus on, we attract to us. Our feelings are guidance that tells us whether what we are in the process of attracting will please us when it shows up in our life. In other words, if a thought feels good, it is; if it doesn’t feel good, it isn’t. Our feelings are our sixth and most powerful sense!
— Angie karan
The gap between understanding and misunderstanding can best be bridged by thought!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Chess, I never thought that I will beat somebody on chess. I just thought that I'm too stupid to play chess, but it looks like the best in the class of math I beat him. He has in math as a result 5, I have 3 - Strange? I don't think so!
— Deyth Banger
A thought, no matter how small and forgotten, always has an eternal impact on the Cosmos. Most times, we can only see the material and just about beyond the immediate, but if we could trace this thought through all Creation... well, it would be a whole universe in itself.
— Adriano Bulla
Then one day a thought clicked my mind... and even theweirdest event in the past start Making complete sense...
— shivangi lavaniya
Revenge and rational thought never sleep together.
— Kevin Hearne, Hammered
Pete and Repeat went out in a boat. Pete fell out. Who was saved?
— Gayle Forman, I Was Here
When you forget about your self consciousness for a moment, you forget about your true self, your real you and your true purpose for a moment
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Any thought that you don’t control has the power to become toxic.
— Toni Sorenson
The seeds of any outcome are within thought.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Thought is yours only. Nobody can alter or influence the use you mean to make of it.
— Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin
A great life begins with a great thought.
— Toni Sorenson
The latent abundance of your inner most resources matters less. What matter most is the impact you can make with your inner resources and the distinctive footprints you can leave with what is within you. The excuse not to dare is there for everybody. When you see so many people crowded at the entrance, think of the roofing and if the roofing is too high, think of the next door and if the next door is not penetrable, create a door within the wall.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Don’t be ruled by your past. Don’t be crippled by the past. Let the past be the past and focus on what is ahead. Remember however that if you neglect the most essential lessons of the past, you shall walk into the future with one leg.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The latent abundance of your inner most resources matter less. What matters most is the impact you can make with your inner resources and the distinctive footprints you can leave with what is within you. The excuse not to dare is there for everybody. When you see so many people crowded at the entrance, think of the roofing and if the roofing is too high, think of the next door and if the next door is not penetrable, create a door within the wall.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A real definition of life lies in our daily thoughts and the steps we take to or away from what is distinctive and noble.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
[A definite statement] is an active, conscious, aggressive, mental movement and in such degree as it embodies an idea--and there is no longer anything in our minds which denies the idea--it will take form, because it now becomes a part of the low and order of the Universe in which we live.
— Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
You haven’t done your best yet because you haven’t seen the best you can do yet. You are where you are now because you haven’t seen where you can be yet. If you see, your attitude, thought and tactics towards life will definitely change
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
BIGGER THE THOUGHT,DIFFICULT TO CAUGHT,TO SURVIVE IT TAUGHT,WITH HOPE WE FOUGHT,SUCCESS WILL BE BROUGHT.
— merlin8thomas
That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old-time big brains: They would tell their owners, in effect, 'Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never do it, of course. It's just fun to think about.' And then, as though in trances, the people would really do it--have slaves fight each other to death in the Colosseum, or burn people alive in the public square for holding opinions which were locally unpopular, or build factories whose only purpose was to kill people in industrial quantities, or to blow up whole cities, and on and on.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Galápagos
The cause of my profound sense of incompatibility with others is, I believe, that most people think with their feelings, whereas I feel with my thoughts.For the ordinary man, to feel is to live, and to think is to know how to live. For me, to think is to live, and to feel is merely food for thought.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
O fairest of all creation, last and bestOf all God's works, creature in whom excelledWhatever can to sight or thought be formed,Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost,Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote?
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
What ravaged my mind was the thought.The thought of you.
— Sreesha Divakaran, Wine, Fire, Satin, Dew
As he prepared to ride on, he chuckled at the thought of the wolf entering the sheepfold. He would not ride with fire and destruction. The shepherd did not frighten his own pretty lambs.
— Conn Iggulden, Khan: Empire of Silver
Sometimes, you may take a step backwards only to realize that a step forward could have been the best choice. Sometimes, you may take a step forward only to notice that a step backwards could have been better; and sometimes, you may only come to a later understanding that stepping aside could have been a great choice, but in all, before you take a step, ponder! The footprint of whatever step is what matter and it must be distinctive
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Once started, love couldn't easily be stopped.
— Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.
— Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
He had never been a religious person. Even as a child he had found the notion of an omnipotent creator who punished his crations inconsistently for minor infractions of a vaguely defined moral code to be unthinkable to anyone with an ounce of sense.
— Michael Thomas Ford
in so far as we cherish the tangibles, we must value the intangibles. The intangibles, though as latent as they may seem to be, they are solemnly tangible.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Our thoughts are not the problem. Our thoughts do not create the psychological smog. It is the way we respond to our thoughts that creates the smog.
— Russ Harris, The Reality Slap: Finding Peace and Fulfillment When Life Hurts
Small changes in thought can bring massive changes in life.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
Rule 3: ‘Negative’ thoughts are normal. Don’t fight them
—  defuse them.
do something from nothing for nothing is nothing unless it is made something. There is always something common with something and nothing and that is the 'thing
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
— Ambrose Bierce
Let us not fear our wild thoughts for they can give rise to wondrous contemplation, creative endeavour, life changing ideas, momentous bliss.
— Jay Woodman
Today the order of life allows no room for the ego to draw spiritual or intellectual conclusions. The thought which leads to knowledge is neutralized and used as a mere qualification on specific labor markets and to heighten to commodity value of the personality.
— Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment
In most circumstances and mostly, what hinders people from leaving distinctive footprints of life is less of physical barriers and much of mental barriers. What dominates your thought each day? Mind your mind.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
As we drew nearer the green shore the bearded man told me of that land, the Land of Zar, where dwell all the dreams and thoughts of beauty that come to men once and then are forgotten. And when I looked upon the terraces again I saw that what he said was true, for among the sights before me were many things I had once seen through the mists beyond the horizon and in the phosphorescent depths of the ocean.
— H.P. Lovecraft
...I suppose it is a lingering trace of Plutarch and my ineradicable boyish imagination that at bottom our State should be wise, sane, and dignified, that makes me think a country which leaves its medical and literary criticism, or indeed any such vitally important criticism, entirely to private enterprise and open to the advances of any purchaser much be in a frankly hopeless condition.
— H.G. Wells, Tono-Bungay
You gleefully say, “I just thought of something!”, when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment of genius struck. When an idea is served up from behind the scenes, your neural circuitry has been working on it for hours or days or years, consolidating information and trying out new combinations. But you take credit without further wonderment at the vast, hidden machinery behind the scenes.
— David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
I’m nothing but a thought in the mind of God,I’m Satan’s slave; I open my eyes and flee, I’m mankind, I worship, and I kill,All in the name of Love, hateI’m the slaughtered lamb, I’m luzbel I’m the one paying for your sins,I’m your son; I am your mom and dad,I’m the one, who worships God, I’m a killer and a saint,I’m just a thought in the mind of God.I laugh and I suffer, I get killed, and I kill others,I’m nothing but a thought in the mind of GodI’m compassion and rage, I love, I cheat, and I lie, I tell the truth, I’m dead, I’m alive, I’m in hell, the place people called paradise,I am just a thought in the mind of God
— Quetzal
The taste death cannot comes from the recipy of cowerdness.
— rishi_328
Never allow opinions of others to disturb your inner tranquillity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
By all account you are art.
— Mark Baumann
I hear preached in our charismatic churches, which basically borders on sowing and reaping, giving and receiving. I thought there must be a different format to that message
— Sunday Adelaja
Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching.
— Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker
Our thoughts deceive us more than our senses.
— Marty Rubin
Thought—he told himself quietly—is a weapon one uses in order to act. No action was possible. Thought is the tool by which one makes a choice. No choice was left to him. Thought sets one’s purpose and the way to reach it. In the matter of his life being torn piece by piece out of him, he was to have no voice, no purpose, no way, no defense.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God.
— Sunday Adelaja
when you have the reasons, reason!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Have a clear-cut plan on what you wish to improve, and seek opportunities to improve it. The more conscious and honest we can be about our shortcomings, the more strength we will have to improve them. We are going to train hard anyway, we are not going to sweat any more or less. It is simply imperative that the sweat is properly directed.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Autopilot is great, and removal of thought is one of the highest ideals of training. But removal of thought in the moment must be preceded by purposeful thought beforehand.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end.
— Jennifer Harrison, Write like no one is reading 2
What has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life.' (Wittgenstein) This is the fact, the given, from which all thinking must start; and thinking, which starts from this fact, is in turn itself but another form of life.
— William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. The soul is in a manner all that is: the soul is the form of forms. Tranquillity sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms.
— James Joyce
Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.
— Paul Valéry
Only those thoughts which come from walking have any value
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Life and love are never what you think they are.
— Marty Rubin
I, too, head for the Baths of Caracalla,thinking—with my old, magnificentprivilege of thinking…(And let there still be a god in me that thinks,lost, weak, and childish,yet whose voice is so humanit is almost a song.) Oh, to leavethis prison of poverty!To be free of the yearningthat makes these ancient nights so splendid!He who knows yearning, and he who does not,have something in common: man’s desires are humble.
— Pier Paolo Pasolini, Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini, The: A Bilingual Edition
What, to many, passes for thought, is usually a compound of prejudice, desire, and whim.
— Denham Sutcliffe, What Shall We Defend?: Essays And Addresses
If from morning to night we just took care of one thing after another, thoroughly and completely and without accompanying thoughts, such as “I’m a good person for doing this” or “Isn’t it wonderful, that I can take care of everything?,” then that would be sufficient.
— Charlotte Joko Beck
Stretched by an idea,   we can aspire to new heights,     new ways of thinking.
— J. Benson, Haiku to Live By: Life affirming messages, to hearten your day
I don't know" is not confusion. Confusion is "I don't know, but I should know" or "I don't know, but I need to know." When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
...It expands; it only destroys because it broadens; even so, thought only destroys because it broadens. A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. "My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe.
— G.K. Chesterton
If u can't say the truth, don't lie...
— GOBA, GOBA's 6th Annual Scrapbook
Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli.
— Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn’t fit the other. I didn’t care
— Charles Bukowski
Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.
— Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks
No matter where you are, you are just one thought away from happiness. Forget everything; just think about happiness and everything will change.
— Debasish Mridha
Amazin'.' he said again. 'He just looks as though he's thinking, right?''Er...yes.''But he's not actually thinking?''Er...no.''So...he just gives the impression of thinking but really it's just a show?''Er...yes.'Just like everyone else, then really,' said Ridcully
— Terry Pratchett
The brain is not nourished on beans and truffles but rather the food manages to reconstitute the molecules of the brain once it has been turned into homogeneous and assimilable substances, which potentially have the "same nature", as the molecules of the brain
— Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food.
— Victor Hugo
Blankly expressing oneself can be stronger than words.
— Paul Morabito, Poetic Delusions
Common sense is not a single unique conception, identical in time and space. It is the "folklore" of philosophy, and, like folklore, it takes countless different forms. Its most fundamental character is that it is a conception which, even in the brain of one individual, is fragmentary, incoherent and inconsequential.
— Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks
One thought follows on the other, they are not distinct objects with clear boundaries; rather, one thought anticipates the next and thereby contains it. The thought that comes afterward contains the memory or trace of the former. Thus, the movement of thought within the mind requires a mathematics of implicate forms.
— F. David Peat
I dislike interaction. The less I say the better I feel. I was naturally a loner. I didn’t want conversation, or to goanywhere. I didn’t understand other people who wanted to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I was drawn to all the wrong things: I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. Relationships never worked with me. I alwayslost interest. I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings.
— Charles Bukowski
Watch a man--say, a politician--being interviewed on television, an you are observing a demonstration of what both he and his interrogators learned in school: all questions have answers, and it is a good thing to give an answer even if there is none to give, even if you don't understand the question, even if the question contains erroneous assumptions, even if you are ignorant of the facts required to answer. Have you ever heard a man being interviewed say, "I don't have the faintest idea," or "I don't know enough even to guess," or "I have been asked that question before, but all my answers to it seem to be wrong?" One does not "blame" men, especially if they are politicians, for providing instant answers to all questions. The public requires that they do, since the public has learned that instant answer giving is the most important sign of an educated man.
— Neil Postman
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary,destructive and terrible,thought is merciless to privilege,established institutions,and comfortable habit.Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid.Thought is great and swift and free,the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
— Bertrand Russell, The Quotable Bertrand Russell
There is peace in knowing that whatever one thinks it is not the truth.
— Marty Rubin
A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.
— Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation
You are an unfinished work in progress. One of the good things about life's challenges: you get to find out that you're capable of being far more than you ever thought possible.
— Karen Salmonsohn
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
The greatest prison where most people live is the fear of what other people think and say
— Osunsakin Adewale
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, Eating People is Wrong
I looked at what he built, and to me it explained the stars.
— Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three
You don't need to change everything in your life instantly. All you need is one positive thought.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
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, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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, The Third Policeman
As the days went by, my frustration festered like an outhouse during a Jamaican summer.
— Andrew Cormier, The Great Deceiver
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, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
One positive thought is the victory you need today!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
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, The Krishnamurti Reader
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, Street Haunting
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, The Art of Happiness
Richness and fat does need,In logic clever fine deeds,But paunches never do breed,Fine thoughts or sublime seeds.[45]	- 2
— Munindra Misra, Eddies of Life
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
Hiding what you feel inside is like running away from what you are.
— Saga Valsalan
Religion is the politics of faith
— pumpjackdude
Today is the future of yesterday.Today is the foundation of tomorrow.Today is going to be the past of future.
— Bina
Thought involves a little charlatanism.
— Julien Torma, 4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché
Think for youself but not because I said so!
— Nala the two dollar philosopher
But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block...
— David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
I love Nigerians becouse they're extra ordinary people they make impossible to be possible.
— Hamzatribah
To be great in life, you must be determined. You can only discover yourself when you are self motivated .
— Osunsakin Adewale
in every 1st October we Nigerians helps very few of us celebrate there independence, very. soon. we will celebrate our own.
— Hamzatribah
You can recreate your world, do not give up until people call you a champion.
— Osunsakin Adewale
What will be will be, so your determination is just extra-ordinary participant .
— Osunsakin Adewale
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, Nadja
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, An Investigation of the Laws of Thought
Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought.
— Alastair Pilkington
Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of joy and hope: it speaks with a thousand tongues to the heart: it waves its mighty shadow over the imagination: it stands in lowly sublimity, on the "hill of ages"; and points with prophetic fingers to the sky: it greets the eager gaze from afar, "with glistering spires and pinnacles adorned," that shine with an internal light as with the lustre of setting suns; and a dream and a glory hover round its head, as the spirits of former times, a throng of intellectual shapes, are seen retreating or advancing to the eye of memory: its streets are paved with the names of learning that can never wear out: its green quadrangles breathe the silence of thought.
— William Hazlitt
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
I Think and think... And more thoughts line up to get processed.
— Upasana Banerjee
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, Public Opinion
if you follow me, you must be spinning round, because i have not destination.
— DonaDevil
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, The Captive Mind
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 False Principle of Our Education
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, Mogens and Other Stories
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.
— Edward Teller, The Pursuit Of Simplicity
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, The Best of All Possible Worlds
A thought can be said in hundred different ways but only one of them will be very effective and popular: The one which has been said in the simplest and clearest way!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
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, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
Hope is a rainbow of thought.
— Harley King
There are four kinds of readers. The first is like the hourglass; and their reading being as the sand, it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second is like the sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third is like a jelly bag, allowing all that is pure to pass away, and retaining only the refuse and dregs. And the fourth is like the slaves in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, retain only pure gems.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Has this version of me been lurking there all along, somewhere deep below the surface, biding its time, waiting for its chance to make an appearance?
— Cat Clarke, Undone
Rayna found a makeover show on TV-one of those where they sneak up on unsuspecting people going about their business, accost them with camera, and tell them they look like crap in front of a zillion people, making them cry, then build them back up with a new makeup job they won't be able to replicate and outfits so intricate they'll never remember how to fit them together. It was perfect.
— Hilary Duff, Devoted
but that shadow self of hers wasn't so sure. The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream.
— Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane
Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.
— Raheel Farooq
By creating an intelligent thought, you open the road for many other intelligent thoughts! By producing a stupid thought, you open the path for many other stupid thoughts! Beware of your thoughts! Create pearl, and then pearls will increase! Create mud, and then mud will increase!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
With all my soul I wished to be good, but I was young, passionate and alone, completely alone when I sought goodness. Every time I tried to express my most sincere desire, which was to be morally good, I met with contempt and ridicule, but as soon as I yielded to low passions I was praised and encouraged.
— Leo Tolstoy
Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and too see dreams, a thorn will wake you up and make you to think!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.
— Raymond Carver, Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe
— Brian Greene
A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about 
— Rex Stout
The more you believe in the power of thought, and the more you listen to your breath, the greater changes you can create in your life.
— Stig Åvall Severinsen, Breatheology
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.
— Yanni
Because the eye has seen, thoughts are structured upon images and not upon ideas.
— David Consuegra, On Trademarks: A Thesis
She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world.
— Taiye Selasi, Ghana Must Go
It's not the content, but the form of thought that counts.
— Orhan Pamuk
The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
— John Dewey
The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.
— Blaise Pascal
question is the beginning of thought
— Felix S. Cohen, The Legal Conscience; Selected Papers
One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor.
— Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
By realizing the spiritual power of Thought, versus getting into the content of thought, you will make your reality a mentally healthier one
— Elsie Spittle, Our True Identity... Three Principles
Always wash you feet last.
— James Cardenas
The glamorous life is a facade, a frauda farce of frivolous triteThe storybook is blank insideChivalry has died
— Donato DiCristino, Compound Delusions: The Rise and Fall of our Design
‎All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.
— Bryan Lee O'Malley, Lost at Sea
A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and dulls the sharp corners of ideas. But too much reverie submerges and drowns. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie it's pleasure. To replace thought with reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.
— Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories
There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts.
— Kathryn Worth, They Loved to Laugh
There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.
— Gangaji
Thought is more dangerous than you think.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production of food are evidences or even symptoms, might well correspond to the thickening armor of the great reptiles—a tendency that can end only in extinction. If this should happen to be true, nothing stemming from thought can interfere with it or bend it. Conscious thought seems to have little effect on the action or direction of our species.
— John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.
— Raheel Farooq
A prepared mind is always made up; it knows what it thinks and why it thinks that. When it's time to change, it just makes itself up a different way. A really made-up mind--made up properly, knowing what it knows and on what basis it knows it--is open. People close an undecided mind because they're trying to protect those sore uncertainties from getting bumped and scraped.
— John Barnese
What you experience is the accumulation of what you have thought about and wished for.
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
With you, I know that what a the future.
— Achda Dona musthofa
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
— Ezra Pound
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
— Charles Darwin
Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.
— U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind is a Myth
Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.
— Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.
— Vladimir Nabokov, Glory
A great many people mistake opinions for thought.
— Herbert V. Prochnow
A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politician, the historian, and the sociologist. Already there are countless people who would think it scandalous to falsify a scientific text-book, but would see nothing wrong in falsifying an historical fact.
— George Orwell, Books v. Cigarettes
Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius.
— Ogwo David Emenike
When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad.
— Sri Chinmoy, My Life's Soul-Journey: Daily Meditations for Ever-Increasing Spiritual Fulfillment
What you powerfully holdIn your thought-worldWill make you eitherA street beggarOr a great king.
— Sri Chinmoy, My Life's Soul-Journey: Daily Meditations for Ever-Increasing Spiritual Fulfillment
It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them
—  and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them
Outside he hurried again, for he had several blocks to walk and the beer turned out to be no more than cool. He told himself he would remember next time to deal from the bottom - but the civil sirens sounded, surprising him with his silly private thought. That's what they blow them for. Thought is a national product, issued, like survival, on a day to day basis. There you go. Until tomorrow. When he understood this would be a long one today, he hurried on.
— Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall
The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.
— Norman Corwin, The Rivalry
Just that dwelling and planning is bullshit, you dwell on the past, you can’t move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you stay stagnant in the same place all your life. Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you’ll get wherever it is you’re going a lot faster and with less bumps in the road along the way.
— J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
— Robert Frost
The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love