Top 1200 Human Thought Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.

I lived in Arizona, and I thought Florida was in California because I thought oranges came from the same place.

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

I never thought of myself as beautiful. I thought I was OK, certainly good enough to get along.

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

When I was about 17 I knew that I was going to be serious about music. Before that I thought, fairly certainly, that I would be a writer. Before that, I thought I would be a forward in the NBA. And before that I thought that I would own a snake farm.

He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter.".

The replacement of negative thought with positive thought brings about a spiritual and physical change that can heal.

When I published my first work, I thought I would never be able to go back to Lebanon. I thought they'd arrest me at the airport. I thought I would change literature as we know it. I thought I'd have men lining up at my door wanting to be my boyfriend. But later I discovered that no one read the book. Or no one cared. Right now, I have only one book translated into Arabic. Someday, maybe if the Syrian regime falls, there will be others, but probably another regime will come into power and it will employ just as much censorship.

It's interesting that stepping out of thought was actually triggered by a thought.

For the most part, people think in ordinary life without bringing order into their thoughts. The guiding principles and epochs of human development and planetary evolution, the great viewpoints which have been opened by the initiates, bring thought into ordered forms. All of this is a part of Rosicrucian training. It is called the Study.

Every time we have a thought that's not a thought of kindness towards others - then we've left the field of intention and, therefore, lost the power of the field of intention, as well. The whole idea is to connect yourself back to this field from which all things emanate, to return to your source and watch it in every thought that you have.

Thought is not reality; yet it is through Thought that our realities are created.

I've never thought that I would see any man of color, not just a black president, but any man of color, I never thought that I would live to see that. I thought maybe my grandchildren would, but I never thought I would. So when Barack Obama first started to run I was like, "I've never heard of this guy - he probably doesn't have a shot." But then he started picking up steam and that piqued my interest.

You cannot “catch” anything unless you think you can, and thinking you can is inviting it to you with your thought. You are also inviting illness if you are listening to people talking about their illness. As you listen, you are giving all your thought and focus to illness, and when you give all of your thought to something, you are asking for it.

I thought I was decent at table tennis, but when I saw Ross Barkley and Raheem Sterling, I thought, 'maybe not'.

I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. It differs, however, from most other branches of human activity in that not only are the pathways of scientific thought determined by the presuppositions of the scientists but their goals are the testing and revision of old presuppositions and the creation of new.

I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again. I thought anything might happen if I wasn't vigilant. I didn't eat. I didn't go out. I didn't want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul. Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life...well, gradually became livable again.

Arrested Development never felt safe. Even the first season, we did thirteen episodes, and we thought we'd never do a back nine. So I never thought in a million years we'd get to make three seasons. I was happy we got that far. I thought it was really good, and I'm really proud of it. I don't think we made a bad episode.

I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.

Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.

The teapot takes in water and gives out tea. So the human individual takes in anything you give him and promptly transforms it; he is ready to give you out again his own reactions - first, in thought and emotion, then in voice or action.

Back in the day as a kid, I was really drawn to the Hulk because it just felt so human and was probably one of the first stories that I felt emotionally invested in and not just thought it was really cool. You really feel for that person and put yourself in that situation.

A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

After a year, I thought gee I don't really need college anymore, which wasn't correct, but that's what I thought.

You can say that all you want, but even in the little time that I've been in this industry, I've learned that it isn't exactly what you expect, so you've got to have a level head. I thought people would dig it. I thought people would enjoy it. It's AMC. I thought people would be fans. But, I did not think we would be the best new show on television.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

Prior to having babies, I thought - I thought I was so busy, and now I realize just how ignorant I was.

The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and not like an Act of Parliament. I take it that the aim of such books must be to convey exact thought in inexact language... he can never succeed without the co-operation of the reader.

The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life.

When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.

The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought.

The subject for which I am asking your attention deals with the foundations of mathematics. To understand the development of the opposing theories existing in this field one must first gain a clear understnding of the concept "science"; for it is as a part of science that mathematics originally took its place in human thought.

What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.

To be an artist and to be recognized by another artist who is, you know, just something you can't even put into words, someone that is so far beyond what the normal human being experience is in terms of creativity and originality. That was kind of a moment where I thought wow maybe I do have something more that makes me special.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

Thought is energy. Active thought is active energy; concentrated thought is a concentrated energy. Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.

I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a big chunk of debris fell on top of my building, and the roof caved in. I thought I was going to die. Really. I'd never thought that before, but on that day I sat there and thought 'I cannot believe it's going to end this way.'

Most people at CMU thought it was perfectly reasonable for the U.S. to invade Nicaragua. They somehow thought they owned it.

The highest thought is always a thought which contains joy.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.

I thought all comedy was stupid. I went to watch a friend do stand-up and I thought absolutely everyone was terrible.

Love must be the first thought and the last thought of the day, if you wish to live in peace and happiness.

Allen Ginsburg was wrong about a lot of things, but especially when he said, 'First thought, best thought.'

Every thought that you have impacts you. Shift from a thought that weakens to one that strengthens you.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the human personality in the name of some intangible good on the one hand and systems that enable and expand the scope of human personality in the pursuit of extremely tangible aims. The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.

Just because we have a thought, doesn't mean it is a thought worth having.

I thought kissing was good with girls, but I always thought you know it probably could be better, so there was nothing really.

I never thought I would tweet - I thought it was too dangerous.