Thought Quotes
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"Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths."
"Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people."
"I was so depressed I thought about committing TV. I mean suicide. In the end I decided to binge on @Netflix and it really made me feel better."
"The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]"
"A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years."
"Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!"
"In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone."
"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking."
"The decision to empty my mind was a no-brainer."
"All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money."
"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
"The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance onOur SOULS."
"Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much."
"An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else."
"To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions."
"Life is difficult."
"Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too."
"You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to."
"It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought."
"I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart."
"Thought before word, never word before thought."
"Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more."
"Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull."
"With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing."
"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
"The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man."
"He who has the audacity to stop you from dreaming is he who had given you the imaginations to think, but not those who watch you as you explore the dreams!"
"The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind."
"Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind."
"When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,—or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge’s phrase, for unity in variety."
"Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating."
"You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what he writes himself."
"The difficulties and challenges in your life are the lessons you need to learn to grow and development."
"It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust."
"You can actually create the life you want. It all depends on how daring you desire it."
"Your past karma is what you found difficult or challenging in this life. To heal your past karma you would need to learn your life lessons for this life."
"Follow your heart. It will lead you to where you need to be."
"Failures and mistakes are lessons to be learned from. They are opportunities for growth."
"We are all teachers, we all have knowledge and experiences that can teach others."
"Until you learn how to confidently say NO to so many things, you shall always say YES to so many things. The real summary of a regretful life is a life that failed to balance YES and NO. Yes! A life that failed to recognize when to courageously say NO and when to confidently say YES!"
"Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out that you missed a spot."
"Suppose that we could close our eyes today and see the real certainties and uncertainties of tomorrow, we would have never wished to open our eyes again for the real certainties and uncertainties of tomorrow never ends!"
"Mind and man what is in today and make today the solid foundation for tomorrow. Focus on what tomorrow brings ans let yesterday be yesterday. If there are lessons to learn from yesterday, don’t neglect them and don’t be crippled by the negativity of yesterday; Only use them as the best panacea and antidote to the ‘had I knows’ of tomorrow you are yet to meet!"
"A change in thought can change a lot. A change thought can untie and untangle the knot"
"We are not our mind or our thoughts. As long as we believe we are our mind, we are open to third-party control."
"When a bumptious person can’t satiate oneself with an empty praise from others, s/he may go a step further to organize a get-together to bring all people of own nature under a single roof to meet, deliberate, celebrate, collaborate, greet, treat , appreciate or even felicitate one another."
"A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Sometimes things seem good at first . . . but we learn the hard way that they weren't as good as we thought."
"I am in your thoughts.You are in my dreams."
"For awhile, I thought that was love.-Gaara"
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