Quotes on “thought”

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

For awhile, I thought that was love.-Gaara

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

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

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.

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.