Thought - Quotes
Every language is an old growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an entire ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
You are the silence in between
What I thought and what I said.
I didn`t want to be the lead guy. That`s too much work. But I thought that it might be fun to be the lead guy`s friend. I`d have days off and still get a paycheck every week.
I was having a bad day, and my friend said, "Go wash your hair." I thought it was really silly - but it made me feel so much better. It might be a small thing, but it works. Washing it off and starting over.
I do not fear death. I fear suffering. And I fear old age, though less so now that I am witnessing the tranquil and pleasant old age of my father. I am afraid of frailty, and of the absence of love. But death does not alarm me. It did not scare me when I was young, and I thought at the time that this was because it was such a remote prospect. But now, at sixty, the fear has yet to arrive. I love life, but life is also struggle, suffering, pain. I think of death as akin to a well-earned rest.
Abstract thought can anticipate by centuries hypotheses that find a use - or confirmation - in scientific inquiry.
There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought [...] fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
The thought of death ought to be a lifelong occupation for every man. But this would be too great a stress for the human psyche. We have to live as if we were immortal.
A scientist must (...) be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.
That`s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
You know, I never thought love was real. I didn`t. And now I think life isn`t real without it.
Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it; to this end I formed the following little prayer, which was prefix`d to my tables of examination, for daily use: "O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me."