1,572 Quotes About Thought

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another.

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.

I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.