Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

Tada sam počeo postavljati pitanja o tome što je volja, gdje je duša, čime se hrani misao i je li i ona, misao, također imenica iz skupine mislenih imenica, mogu li glagoli napadati, a ako...

Good and bad, right and wrong, truth and deception, it all depends on your state of mind.

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

Think like a man of action but act like a woman of thought.

Towel and talk, how similar are they, both wipes dry water. One on the hate and latter in the head.

You cannot be different from your thought!

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make...

Besides, I seemed to hold two lives—the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter...

I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I felt within me the capacity to know all things. In the wonderland of Mind I...

Great change outside, is the outcome of greater chang inside-out from your soul and your mind

Sleep knocks on my eyes: they grow heavy. Sleep touches my mouth: it stays open.Truly, he comes to me on soft soles, the dearest of thieves, and steals my thoughts from me

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...

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.

No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices that were made for them, have already set them on a course that gives limited freedom in the choices to...

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

Almost all our cares are imaginary. We think them into existence.

Sometimes things seem good at first . . . but we learn the hard way that they weren’t as good as we thought.

Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state...

It’s not the content, but the form of thought that counts.

What will be will be, so your determination is just extra-ordinary participant .

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I’ve used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of...

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.

An editor doesn’t just read, he reads well, and reading well is a creative, powerful act. The ancients knew this and it frightened them. Mesopotamian society, for instance, did not want great reading from its...

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...

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.

Today is the future of yesterday.Today is the foundation of tomorrow.Today is going to be the past of future.

One of the difficulties of thinking clearly about anything is that it is almost impossible not to form our ideas in words which have some previous association for us; with the result that our thought...

We think too much and feel too little.

Live on your good thoughts and they will manifest outwardly.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that...

The main factor that makes leadership potentials to become abused often is ignorance. Many people can merely spell their names in alphabets, but cannot pronounce their brands!

If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good

Our actions are express image of our thoughts

To want to tackle everything rationally is irrational.

Ignorance annihilates self.

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

Life is difficult.

Thoughts are phantoms. And when you fight with phantoms they always win.

The deterioration of individual thought has resulted in a morbidly dependent society that has lost its sense of personal responsibility and accountability. Society has devolved into a state of thoughtless stagnancy, accepting the tyrannical laws...

A thought which is created in a second can change the thousand years of the World!

Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things....

God rewards a person not for the deeds he does openly, but according to the thoughts and actions he has in secret.

It is always better to be surrounded by enemies that make you strong, than to be crushed between friends that make you weak.

I’ve been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

‎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.