Thought - Quotes
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.
Every language is an old growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an entire ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.
One thought keeps going round my head:
The thought of dying in my bed!
Slowly withering like some overblown
Flower the greenfly gnaws and makes his own;
Wasting away like an old candlestick
In a deserted room, grown pale and sick.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
Mankind is not yet grown, I`m saying.
But he aspires, and thus he`s wild.
His parents - thought, and love undying -
may they watch over their lost child.
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."
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round [...] as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words.
You are the silence in between
What I thought and what I said.
Experience teaches, [...] that there is no such thing as a thought experiment so clearly presented that no philosopher can misinterpret it.