All Quotes By Tag: Thought
“You will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a period of time; one is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.”
“If some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it. And I wanted to remember it for as long as I could.”
“Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.”
“I miss being the age when I thought I’d have my shit together by the time I was the age I am now..”
“My own eyes try to sleep, but they don’t. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.”
“David Foster Wallace: Because I’d like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then.”
“Islam is not man’s ultimate justification to do as he pleases–it is, instead, a religion built on reason and evidence. If each of us asks the ustaz for the causes of his religious opinions, then we should, by doing so, help realise the principles of Islam and thus improve intellectual discussion in our own community.”
“لقد فرض الإسلام ،منذ أشرق نور القرآن على القلوب، وتجلت تعاليمه الفطرية على العالم الإنساني، التفكير وقبح التقليد ورفع الحجر عن العقول”
“We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.”
“Novels for me are how I find out what’s going on in my own head. And so that’s a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.”
“Everything been Created, were once been conveyed as a Thought. And Imagination is an Art of Creation. Dare to Imagine it, be passionate to Work it, and you may end up leaving your world with that no one ever Thought could be!”
“I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.”
“La luz del pasillo iluminaba débilmente mi rostro que se reflejaba de modo fantasmal en el cristal de la ventanilla y me hacía recordar el que tuve en la infancia, el que naufragó para siempre en la despedida, como si aquel niño se hallara agazapado en algún lugar de mi interior esperando un descuido mío para emerger de nuevo en las aguas fangosas del pasado con su sonrisa feliz y sus ojos brillantes.”
“Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.”
“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.”