1,572 Quotes About Thought

An ancient metaphor: thought is a thread, and the raconteur is a spinner of yarns - but the true storyteller, the poet, is a weaver.

Boring is the right thought at the wrong time.

والحق أن الأفكار،على تضاربها أحياناً، جذبتني أكثر مما فعل النضال. فكنت مثل مشاهد فيلم سينمائي ينفعل أكثر مما ينفعل الممثل، وبصدق قد يتعدى صدقه، إلا في آخر المطاف، يشاهد ولا يمثل.

Patience is the thing that makes me think about my choices rather than having my choices make me think about why I made them.

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.

It has been said that when an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. But when a language dies, it is a whole world that comes to an end.

A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.

Only those with tenacity can march forward in March

When all the people in the world become technology and technology becomes the people, we shall see a new world!