Quotes about Thought

a person who thinks should not try to persuade others to his belief; that is what puts him on the road to a system; on the lamentable road of the man of conviction; politicians like to call themselves that; but what is a conviction? It is a thought that has come to a stop, that has congealed, and the man of conviction is a man restricted.

If young people wished, they have it in their hands to make a bigger, more beautiful and better world, but that they occupy themselves with superficial things, without giving a thought to real beauty.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

I can't tell you how Aquinas has enriched and changed my life, my thought. He has helped me to be a better evangelical, a better servant of Christ, and to better defend the faith that was delivered, once for all, to the saints.

It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Everyone knows what attention is. It is taking possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seems several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence. It implies a withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others.

Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.