Thought Quotes

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

William James

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

Dejan Stojanovic

The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.

Ann Druyan

My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive.

Maggie Stiefvater

If her ememies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemie's, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.

Kristin Cashore

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.

Philip K. Dick

When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad.

Sri Chinmoy

If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.

E.A. Bucchianeri

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

Idries Shah

Life is difficult.

M Scott Peck

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie

Thought is free.

William Shakespeare

Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

George Gardner

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others: in conversation we nat

Samuel Johnson

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

Soren Kierkegaard

Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.

John Dryden

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 to live. It was a place you go to die.

John Green