Quotes by Train Of Thought So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. Alan Moore train-of-thought finding-yourself past Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice. Anna Letitia Barbauld train-of-thought track pride A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. Asger Jorn train-of-thought unexpected creative The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the dreary silence of her day. Sometimes I see an expression on Clare’s face that is like a closed door. She has gone inside the room of her mind and is sitting there knitting or something. I’ve discovered that Clare likes to be alone. But when I return from time traveling she is always relieved to see me. Audrey Niffenegger train-of-thought knitting home We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off. C. S. Lewis train-of-thought temptation waiting Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track. Criss Jami train-of-thought track thinking Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more offensive than feeling like you have to re-evaluate your own train of thought and purpose in life. You have to die to an extent in your hunger for faith, for wisdom, and quite frankly, most people aren't ready to die. Criss Jami train-of-thought feelings people To some an extremely sharp picture may be positively painful, for it will perhaps disturb and break the train of thought, whereas a less-defined one would allow the mind to wander at its own sweet will. Francis Meadow Sutcliffe train-of-thought mind sweet Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it. Franz Kafka train-of-thought single-word educated In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable. George Henry Lewes complexes train-of-thought indispensable Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break the pre- off the -dictable, unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments, and rattle the tracks of your trains of thoughts. Heather McHugh train-of-thought track trying We can trace back our existence almost to a point. Former time presents us with trains of thoughts gradually diminishing to nothing. But our ideas of futurity are perpetually expanding. Our desires and our hopes, even when modified by our fears, seem to grasp at immensity. This alone would be sufficient to prove the progressiveness of our nature, and that this little earth is but a point from which we start toward a perfection of being. Humphry Davy train-of-thought perfection ideas 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. Frederick Lenz train-of-thought buddhism letting-go God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement. John Ortberg train-of-thought pain children Every person has a train of thought on which they travel when they are alone. The dignity and nobility of their life, as well as their happiness depend upon the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries and the scenery through which it travels. Joseph Fort Newton train-of-thought baggage dignity Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone. Joseph Fort Newton train-of-thought train men If you don't stick to your plan enough, and you're too seduced by whimsical notions and new ideas, you can kind of lose your train of thought and end up with something that doesn't have a solid through-line. Joseph Gordon-Levitt train-of-thought lines ideas A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence. Joseph Conrad train-of-thought life lying This train of thought was heading straight for Pity City, and she wanted to get off. Lauren Kate train-of-thought pity cities Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking. Max Bill train-of-thought ideas thinking 12»
