sometimes in your works, give people the opportunity to express their ignorance; then you prove the wrong with your works.

We must act to free our minds, not think.

One can be a pessimist in thought, but not in action.

In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the Devon School came into existence the day i entered it, was vibrantly real while i was a...

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

What I learned on my own I still remember

Thought before word, never word before thought.

Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its...

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;...

Not everyone who commits a crime is a criminal.

As long as we take thought, we will continue to matter”.

And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that are the poems, the pictures and the buildings. Men are its philosophies. They...

Think and then think what you have thought. Is it really what you had thought. Think again.

What is birthday, but a celebration of death.

When your thought is right, your imaginations will be colourful; you will then dream and not have nightmares!

The carved stone sign in front read Building C.Imaginative title, Langdon thought

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

Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more.

Opportunities can become obstacles, same way obstacles can become opportunities; it all depends on how they are being interpreted by the mind of a person.

The part of thinking that’s easy to handle is the part that works by analogy with speech. Thinking in words, speaking our thoughts internally, projects an auditorium inside our skulls. Dark or bright, a shadow...

Your mind is too precious to bear negative thoughts and beliefs in it.

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question is the beginning of thought

I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go...

Most of our troubles are imaginary. We think them into existence.

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

Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.

Think for youself but not because I said so!

To be great in life, you must be determined. You can only discover yourself when you are self motivated .

She kept forcing herself to remember the entire conversation, playing it back and playing it back, all the way through, forcing a finger down her memory’s throat.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

What you powerfully holdIn your thought-worldWill make you eitherA street beggarOr a great king.

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.

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man’s guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

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...

…the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.

Learn to live from inside to outside, bring out those magnificent estates within you and live in them.

The only way to make a library safe is to lock people out of it. As long as they are allowed to read the books ‘any old time they have a mind to,’ libraries will...

[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for...

Opportunities may surface clearly, but it takes a positive mind to see them. Positive people think and think possibilities even in difficulties and failing situations.

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

Boring is the right thought at the wrong time.

We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul.

…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...

Each “way of thinking” has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon.

I miss being the age when I thought I’d have my shit together by the time I was the age I am now..

Nothing is a waste of time unless you think it is.

I wonder about people who say they haven’t time to think. For myself, I can double think. I find that weighing vegetables, passing the time of day with customers, fighting or loving Mary, coping with...

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.