Quotes about thought
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“Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.”

Diadochos of Photiki (400–486) Byzantine saint

§ 70
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

“I feel like saying over and over and over, what I have said many times before, that we do not know the world of living, longing, suffering, enjoying life in the midst of which we have evolved. The inhabitants of our own fields and dooryards are strangers to us. We are so little, and proud, and selfish, we never think it worth while to stop and look into their faces and get acquainted with them. It never occurs to us what a great favour it would be to them if we would actually get over into their places occasionally and realise what tragedies are constantly being enacted in their lives as a result of our insensate natures. We treat them with no consideration or respect because we have no understanding of them; and we do not understand them because we do not care anything at all about the matter. We are too busy tossing bouquets at ourselves to have much time or thought left for anybody else. We have grown up in the belief that all those who have a different shape from what we have were intended, not for life and happiness and immortality, as we were, but for death and wretchedness and chymification, and we are too dull-minded and selfish to make any change now.”

J. Howard Moore (1862–1916)

Source: The New Ethics (1907), The Thesis of the New Ethics, p. 37

Life, Death, Happiness, World

“Anyone who is of a thoughtful, philisophical cast of mind will occasionaly be struck by the appearance of certain organizing principles of history. The forms these principles seem to take inevitably depends upon one's specific obsession. For a mornachist, history is a struggle of classes of economic civil war. An agriculturalist sees the dynamic of populations, land, and availability of food; a philosopher might speak of the will to power or the will to sythesis; a theologian of the will of God.”

Matthew Stover book Blade of Tyshalle

(II.2) Del Rey, p. 100
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)

God, War, Food, History

“Is fashion important? Is it important to talk about luxury? Does it really matter if you’re going to wear a red dress or not? Finally, I thought, Because of that woman, it is important. You make people dream. You make people think. You have to give them stories. You have to introduce fantasy. Fashion is how we bring them into the world today. That is my job.”

Alber Elbaz (1961–2021) Israeli fashion designer

Source: Interview, 2009, https://www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/alber-elbaz

People, World, Making love, Dreams

“Not even the thought of death can upset the man who is going into space for the first time. The journey into the unknown transcends the framework of anxiety, at least for a while.”

Robert Sheckley book The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton

Source: Crompton Divided (1978), Chapter 6 (p. 28)

Death, Time

“The Internet is a mirror of our subconscious thoughts.”

Henry Zebrowski (1984) American actor and comedian

63:51
Tin Foil Hat With Sam Tripoli #142: The State of the Union Of Conspiracies with Henry Zebrowski

“I may be shallow, but my thoughts are deep.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)

“My thoughts hold my mind together.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)

“You were a treasonous pussy if you had second thoughts about killing and dying for plain and simple reasons.”

Tim O'Brien book The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried (1990), On the Rainy River

“I come from a world of conservative Christian thought. I've absorbed Christianity with my mother's milk. So it must be obvious that certain… archetypes, aren't they called?”

Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker

stick in one's mind, and that certain lines, certain courses of events, certain ways of behaving, become adequate symbols for what goes on in the Christian system of ideas. … I keep myself supplied with my own angels and demons...
Torsten Manns interview.
Bergman on Bergman (1970)

World

“Crime and madness have some similarity. Seeing the prisoners of the Conciergerie in the courtyard, or seeing the mad in the garden of a nursing home, it's the same thing. Both walk around, avoiding each other, glancing at each other at least singularly, atrociously, according to their thoughts of the moment, never cheerful or serious; because they know each other or they fear each other. The expectation of a condemnation, remorse, anxieties give walkers in the courtyard a worried and a haggard look of madmen. Consummate criminals alone have an assurance which resembles the tranquility of an honest life, the sincerity of a pure conscience.”

Honoré de Balzac book Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes

et Misères des courtisanes (The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans) (1837-1847), part IV. La dernière Incarnation de Vautrin (The Last Incarnation of Vautrin) https://books.google.ca/books?id=ajtOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Splendeurs+et+Mis%C3%A8res+des+Coutisanes+Sc%C3%A8nes+de+la+Vie+parisienne&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiq69XJuJTvAhXrMlkFHcxvDVgQ6AEwCHoECAEQAg#v=onepage&f=falseSplendeurs, "Le Préau de la Conciergerie" ("The Courtyard of the Conciergerie") (chapter title). Original: (fr) Le crime et la folie ont quelque similitude. Voir les prisonniers de la Conciergerie au préau, ou voir des fous dans le jardin d'une maison de santé, c'est une même chose. Les uns et les autres se promènent en s'évitant, se jettent des regards au moins siguliers, atroces, selon leurs pensées du moment, jamais gais ni sérieux ; car ils se connaissent ou ils se craignent. L'attente d'une condamnation, les remords, les anxiétés donnent aux promeneurs du préau l'air inquiet et hagard des fous. Les criminels consommés ont seuls une assurance qui ressemble à la tranquillité d'une vie honnête, à la sincérité d'une conscience pure.

Life, Fear, Home, Sincerity

“Most people didn’t realise how I struggled throughout my life and career. There was a lot of pain, negative thoughts, and trauma that others didn’t see, and today the majority of the population is enduring this.”

Layne Beachley (1972) Australian surfer

LIFE LESSONS WITH LAYNE BEACHLEY https://www.tracksmag.com.au/news/riding-deep-with-layne-beachley-555092 (October 23 2020)

Life, Pain, People

“Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit by which Nature herself is animated. It is the joy of the intellect which sees clearly into the Universe and which recreates it, with conscientious vision. Art is the most sublime mission of man, since it is the expression of thought seeking to understand the world and to make it understood.”

Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) French sculptor

Preface, p. 7-8
1910s, Art, 1912

Pleasure, World, Making love, Art

“Mum said school mighta been different for me if I only give a damn. Maybe it was wasted on me like the teachers said. I didn't have any philosophy in me then, so I didn't know what to listen for. Most of it was pointless crap. Don't reckon I met a single wise person all the years I stayed but like I say, I wasn't paying close attention. And the thing is I miss it a bit. That's something I never thought I'd hear myself say. I didn't know what I was, what I could do. Except the lame things I did do.”

Tim Winton (1960) Australian writer

Part I, Ch.6 - p.43
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)

School, Teachers, Personality

“Turn off thoughts, limit the stimulus and commitment to achieve your goals.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Spegni i pensieri, limitano lo stimolo e l'impegno per raggiungere le tue mete.
Source: prevale.net

“We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.”

Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer

Section 9 : Ethical Outlook
Life and Destiny (1913)

Children, Age

“Here I thought they were invincible.”

Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows

“They’re immortal. It’s not the same thing.”
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 49 (p. 451)

“Simulation systems (mathematical models, philosophical thought experiments) that don’t have real world applications are like SPACs - shells with all the paperwork in place till something operational is ready to merge into them.”

Anand Gandhi (1980) Indian film director

World, Mathematics

“We are servants of the Crown as well as servants of the people... I am not ashamed to say that in my old age I rejoice in any opportunity which enables me to testify that, whatever may be thought of my opinions, whatever may be thought of my proposals in general politics, I do not forget the service which I have borne for so many years to the illustrious representative of the British Monarchy.”

William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom

Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1889/jul/25/the-royal-grants#S3V0338P0_18890725_HOC_142 in the House of Commons (25 July 1889) 1880s

People, Age, Forgetting

“I always wanted to be an author. I thought it was the coolest job. As a child of immigrant parents, it wasn't ever something that they promoted. They always wanted me to do something practical.”

Jason Tanamor (1975) Filipino-American Author and Writer

United States Army Interview (2016)

Parent

“When assessing the responsibility for this war—we have to confess honestly that we bear a share of the guilt. If I said this thought oppresses me, I would say too little—this thought never leaves me. I live in it.”

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921) German chancellor during World War I

Remarks to Theodor Wolff (5 February 1915), quoted in Konrad H. Jarauschl, ‘The Illusion of Limited War: Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg's Calculated Risk, July 1914’, Central European History, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), p. 76

War

“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.”

John Green book The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

Star

“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.”

Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor

Failure

“Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

Health, Peace

“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer

Life, Flowers

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

World, Change, Motivational, Wise

“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

Wisdom, Freedom

“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.”

John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer

Memory

“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

Peace, Peaceful

“The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work.”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

Understanding, Heart

“Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.”

Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist

Problem

“Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.”

Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) German writer

Life, Wisdom, Secret, Art

“The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Ancient Rome

Life, Universe

“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.”

Léon Blum (1872–1950) French politician

Fear

“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

Truth, Error

“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”

Brooks Adams (1848–1927) American political writer

Life, Friendship, Communication

“Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Dreams

“A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.”

François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

Thinking

“The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004) American psychiatrist

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist

Happiness, Gratitude

“Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.”

Ernie Banks (1931–2015) American baseball player and coach

Friendship, Loyalty, Wealth

“The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

“The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.”

Louise L. Hay (1926–2017) American writer

Thinking, Painting

“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“Free Trade in the sense in which we have always understood it is either a sound economic policy or it is not. Judging by results in national prosperity I should have thought it would take a lot of disproving, but the Tories are ready to play fast and lose with it and some of our own people who ought to know far better seem ready to back them up. If there is any future for the Liberal party it surely rests on the rock of Free Trade.”

C. P. Scott (1846–1932) British journalist, publisher and politician

Letter to John Lawrence Hammond (22 December 1931), quoted in The Political Diaries of C. P. Scott, 1911–1928, ed. Trevor Wilson (1970), p. 495

People, Sense, Future

“When we react faster than thought, we don’t react thoughtfully.”

Scott Galloway (professor) (1964) clinical professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business, public speaker and entrepreneur

SCOTT GALLOWAY: All new college graduates need to understand that balance is a myth https://www.businessinsider.com/scott-galloway-dear-college-graduates-become-strong-dont-victim-2021-6 Scott Galloway, Business Insider, June 11, 2021

“When I was a kid, I honestly never thought about race. I didn't see differences.”

Lana Condor (1997) Vietnamese-American actress

As quoted in "The Real Love Story in To All the Boys I've Loved Before Is Between Lana Condor and Jenny Han" in Glamour (24 August 2018) https://www.glamour.com/story/the-real-love-story-in-to-all-the-boys-ive-loved-before

“I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam,and it was that we better get out of this.”

Walter Cronkite (1916–2009) American broadcast journalist

Free the Airwaves! (2002)

War, People

“Also, they had to forget both their misery and their thought which doubled the misery.”

Honoré de Balzac book Un grand homme de province à Paris

Part II: Un grand Homme de province à Paris (A Great Man of the Provinces in Paris).
Lost Illusions (1837-1843)
Original: (fr) Aussi tous avaient-ils besoin d'oublier et leur malheur et leur pensée qui doublait le malheur.

Forgetting

“You are the most fascinating and important thought of my days.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

From the Quotes http://www.prevale.net/quotes.html page of the official website of Prevale Original: (it) Sei il pensiero più affascinante ed importante dei miei giorni. Source: prevale.net

“The ceremony of lifting up our hands in prayer is designed to remind us that we are far removed from God, unless our thoughts rise upward.”

John Calvin book Institutes of the Christian Religion

Book 3, Chapter 20, Section 5
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559)

God

“Arrogance complicates words, because it believes that intelligence is only for the chosen few. Elegance transforms complex thoughts into something that everyone can understand.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance

Intelligence, Understanding

“As the only black kid in my primary school playground, animals had become my friends. By 15 I was vegan, although I didn't give up honey until 16. For a while my mother thought it was just "a rasta phase."”

Benjamin Zephaniah (1958) English poet and author

… I can honestly say I've not been tempted to give up veganism in 27 years. I sometimes smell a chip shop and like the smell but then feel guilty because fish might be part of it. But I'll go home and make vegan chips. After all these years, my favourite food is my mother's butter bean stew with whole potatoes, yam and dasheen. I don't think I've ever made a meal for her, to be honest. I think she would consider it a failing of her motherhood and say "Boy, get out the kitchen." "Interview: Benjamin Zephaniah" by John Hind, TheGuardian.com (18 July 2010) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/18/benjamin-zephaniah-life-on-a-plate

School, Animals

“Every human thought passes at the moment of its development into the external world, where it becomes an active being … Consequently, a person continuously inhabits the path he traverses in world space with a multitude of images representing child of his fantasies, desires, aspirations and passions.”

Pierre Piobb (1874–1942) French ophthalmologist (1874-1942)

Source: Book Ancient Higher Magic

World, Passion, Personality

“Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster.”

Ira Levin book The Boys from Brazil

The Boys from Brazil (1976)

“As our acts and our thoughts are, so will our lives be.”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCV: On the usefulness of basic principles

“I had to get them out. I couldn't leave them, could I? I never thought about what might happen to me- I didn't have time to think about it.”

Jack Bamford (1937) Recipient of the George Cross

From an interview in 2010 with Michael Ashcroft, quoted in George Cross Heroes (2010) by Michael Ashcroft, p. 236

Thinking, Time

“Many creative people have a certain degree of dissatisfaction with the status quo, the established way. If you look at things differently, you are thought of as 'different.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

In turn, 'different' people are thought to be 'mad.'
Interview with The Boston Globe (1989)

People, Way

“Attraction causes action. Action stimulates thought. Thought reaches the goal.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) L'attrazione provoca azione. L'azione stimola il pensiero. Il pensiero raggiunge l'obiettivo.
Source: prevale.net

“Is the thought that shapes the world.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) È il pensiero a dare forma al mondo.
Source: prevale.net

World, Depressing

“You are the most fascinating and important thought of my days.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Sei la mia più affascinante e rischiosa tentazione.

“Spinoza’s formula, “Deus=natura=substantia”, like all conclusions drawn from it in his Ethics and his earlier works, simply means that there is no God. This discovery of Spinoza’s became the starting point for modern philosophical thought.”

Lev Shestov (1866–1938) Russian theologian

Source: In Job's Balances: on the sources of the eternal truths, Foreword p. xxxix

God

“I thought that if I changed the things I did, it could help me play at a higher level for longer. I knew I could not expect immediate results. I did it because I had to try. I knew if I started at the top level a little later, I could be there for longer.”

Robert Lewandowski (1988) Polish association football player

Change, Help

“Regardless of whether the object of perception is physical and can thus be measured for colour, shape, and size, or whether what is being perceived is something more subtle like thought, feeling, and sensation, all are phenomena.”

Mooji (1954) Jamaican spiritual teacher

Greater than Sky, Vaster than Space, (2018), Part I

Feeling

“Everything you can perceive comes and goes, including your own body. You are the one looking at time, objects, and even thoughts and emotions.”

Mooji (1954) Jamaican spiritual teacher

Greater than Sky, Vaster than Space, (2018), Part I

Time

“Once I'm committed to a role, I will go very deep into it, even when I'm not at work. I'll keep on studying the script, maybe 40 or 50 times. I might call a scriptwriter at three in the morning to say I've thought of something new.”

Tony Leung (1962) Hong Kong actor

"'It never gets any easier'" in The Guardian (23 February 2004) https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/feb/23/1

Study, Time

“There are two kinds of thoughtforms: those which are mental and those which are the result of man's fears - these are unreal. But they become real, because every thought is real. Even if it is an astral thoughtform, it is still a potent force although it has no essential reality.”

Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

Fear, Reality

“Let only the eager, thoughtful and reverent enter here.”

James A. Blaisdell (1867–1957) American academic

Pomona College Gates, north side [citation needed]

“You try to cope with the mass audience, but in fact you are not doing something for them—I would be fighting with myself. I thought, I don’t have to make big films, I can make small films that I can be happy with. I can find my own audience.”

Wong Kar-wai (1958) Hong Kong screenwriter, film producer and film director

"Wong Kar-wai by Han Ong" in Bomb Magazine (1 Janaury 1998) https://bombmagazine.org/articles/wong-kar-wai-1/

Happiness, Fight

“From an early age, I tried to be funny for the adults. [...] I think I thought and feel still that I have to provide that in order for people to like me.”

John Mulaney (1982) American actor and comedian

People, Age, Feeling, Thinking

“A book is like a man — clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.”

John Steinbeck book Journal of a Novel

From a letter to Pascal Covici (1952)
Journal of a Novel (1969)

Books, Beauty, Flowers, Sun

“Come here, let's not care
Whatever's happening out there
Just feel me, reach all over
Let us blindly discover
What we never thought could exist
Make up for all the time we missed”

Zhiar Ali (1999) Kurdish human rights activist and artist

Euphoria https://genius.com/Zhiar-ali-euphoria-lyrics, 2018 Song lyrics

Feeling, Time

“There's a wild thing that exists in all of us. It lives in our passions, in the people we love, in our subconscious thoughts, our beliefs. It's even made a home in the darkest parts of us, but we can't be scared of it, we have to become it.”

Alessia Cara (1996) Canadian singer

"Wild Things" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De30ET0dQpQ, Know-It-All (2015), New York: Def Jam Recordings

Love, People, Home, Passion

“When we multitask and split up our mind into a million directions, we are actually creating our own suffering, because these habits strengthen strong emotional reactivity and discursive thought.”

Pema Chödron (1936) American philosopher

How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

Strong, Suffering

“I went home with the resolve to write what I knew and to trust my own thoughts and feelings and to not look outside myself. I was not in school anymore: I could say what I wanted.”

Natalie Goldberg book Writing Down the Bones

Introduction. at p.2
Writing Down the Bones (1986)

School, Feeling, Home

“Communism is nothing but a grotesque distortion of true Socialist thought. We and we alone could become the genuine Socialists in Germany, or for that matter, in Europe.”

Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister

Source: Letter to Count E. Von Reventlow (mid 1920s), quoted in Joseph Goebbels: A Biography https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.185382/2015.185382.Joseph-Goebbels_djvu.txt, Curt Riess, Hollis and Carter, London (1949) p. 37

Communication

“I'm so sorry
I didn’t want to hurt people, but I thought they were attacking me.”

James Alex Fields (1997)

2017 video interview with police reported on 4 December 2018 by Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-protests/driver-sobbed-after-learning-he-killed-woman-at-virginia-rally-idUSKBN1O32DI

People, Hurt

“Mathematics is primarily a tool for human thought.”

William Thurston (1946–2012) mathematician

Foreword to Teichmüller Theory

Mathematics

“Love is simply a bundle of feelings that we express, whether to attract, arouse or communicate our thoughts to someone else.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Love, Feeling, Communication

“Pray, meditate, and find a calming place to collect all your thoughts at the end of each day.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The devil lacks inspiration that's why he has to imitate everything. Cultivate your thoughts!”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“You should not allow yourself to be compared to the mob, or the people who are ready to rebel against a regime which they believe does not serve their interests any longer. Great ideas come only when we are deeply thinking alone and thus, making it much easier to put these thoughts into action.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

People, Idea, Thinking

“Your thoughts are not yours until when you start pondering upon them.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Better to be poor in possessions rather than in thoughts and your way of reasoning.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Way

“I've been frequently told that I'm worth more than what I thought. But I still don't see any difference in their opinions.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Sleeping is like hitting a reset button of thoughts, thus, generating fresh ideas and getting a sense of relaxation at the end.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Idea, Sense, Sleep

“The hands and feet, including the whole body, are the slaves of your thoughts.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The purpose of meditation is not to calm the mind. It's all about controlling your thoughts and emotions. Familiarise yourself with good and evil, the shortest path to eternal wisdom.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Wisdom, Evil

“When planning, you need to make the mind or thoughts clear like the sky, thus removing all the clouds.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Women are great at talking and expressing their emotions, while men are great at reasoning and writing down their thoughts.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Women, Men

“I wanted to break the linearity of poetic text to mess with it, if you will. The poem is meant to be a network rather than a single rope of thought.”

Adunis (1930) Essayist, poet

Adunis, in: " https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/books/18adonis.html" at nytimes, October 17, 2010

“When I heard I was nominated, I thought an actress should only focus on acting, and I didn't want to feel anxious wondering if I will get awarded.”

Kim Hye-ja (1941) South Korean actress

On her nomination for Grand Prize (Daesang) in "'Daesang' winner Kim Hye Ja says Nam Joo Hyuk convinced her to attend the 'Baeksang Arts Awards'" in Allkpop (2 May 2019) https://www.allkpop.com/article/2019/05/daesang-winner-kim-hye-ja-says-nam-joo-hyuk-convinced-her-to-attend-the-baeksang-arts-awards

Feeling

“I almost got no sleep, shooting eight hours in one film, followed by eight hours in another and eight hours in a third film. But whenever we were done at the end of the day, I never thought of packing up. I always couldn’t bear to go home.”

Brigitte Lin (1954) Taiwanese actress

As quoted in "Brigitte Lin, a timeless national treasure" in Taipei Times (15 May 2018) https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2018/05/15/2003693091

Home, Sleep

“I thought that the acting talent is something that you are born with. But now I have realized, with this drama, that acting is something that requires you to pour endless efforts on each piece.”

Kim Hye-ja (1941) South Korean actress

On performing in stage drama Doubt in "Kim Hye-ja returns to stage with 'Doubt'" in Han Cinema (20 November 2006) https://www.hancinema.net/herald-interviewkim-hye-ja-returns-to-stage-with-doubt--7779.html

Effort

“Ultimately there's one judgement that’s supremely important and that's before the good God when you die. Now if I had thought that death was the end of everything, that the ultimately important thing was my earthly reputation, well obviously my approach would have been different.”

George Pell (1941–2023) Australian Catholic cardinal and convicted sex offender

In EWTN interview, Cardinal Pell discusses acquittal, Vatican finances https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/46976/in-ewtn-interview-cardinal-pell-discusses-acquittal-vatican-finances (December 21, 2020)

Death, God

“The premature deaths of infants have nothing in them to suggest the thought that one who so terminates his life is subject to some grievous misfortune, any more than they are to be put on a level with the deaths of those who have purified themselves in this life by every kind of virtue.”

Gregory of Nyssa (335–395) bishop of Nyssa

On Infants' Early Deaths

Life, Death

“If you still thought evolution was about the good of the species, stop thinking so right now.”

Matt Ridley book Genome

Source: Genome (1999), Chapter X and Y “Conflict” (p. 113)

Thinking

Quotes about thought page 98

Quotes about thought
page 98