Thought Quotes

It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

Intelligence and genius

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.

The individual cannot exist on his/her own and the collectivism should respect freedom of conscience. My struggle is about the freedom of thought.

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

If you want to feel good, be rational.

Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.

The power of thought, the vast regions it can master.

If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought.

If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn't have an opportunity.

Some people rely on rumors and gossip because they are devoid of any original thought.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and wonder if my life would be different if I had to do it over... Then a voice comes to me out of the dark that says, "boy, there's an original thought!

He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.

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Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

We go where our deepest desires take us.

I felt like on one hand the clarity of thought was amazing, but on the other we went during Antarctic summer, so the sun didn't set the whole time we were there.

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly born into the kingdom of reason and free thought.

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.

We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.

Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.

If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.

Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.

What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.

Jim Rohn is one of the most articulate, powerful, thought-provoking speakers I've seen. His unique delivery and style puts him head and shoulders above the rest.

Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom of thought and the advancement of learning.

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's the most deep thought of all. ... I can't think of anything more deep than that right.

I think the trend to control speech - and therefore thought - continues. Because of the freer flow of information now, there's more on the side of free thought.

It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.

Even if you are focusing on a chakra, you don't want to do that for the whole period of meditation. There should be a point where you let go. Settle down. Get off the train of thought for a while.

Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

Things are always harder than you think they're going to be.