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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.
Diamond Sutra
We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on
Virginia Woolf
But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me.
Bhagavad Gita
The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
Jean Baudrillard
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
James H. Robinson
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
Frederick W. Faber
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
Wallace Stevens
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
Italo Calvino
Carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes