"thought"タグの名言

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known how to enter, its role in our lives is salutary. It becomes dangerous, on the other hand, when, instead of awakening us to the personal life of the mind, reading tends to take its place, when the truth no longer appears to us as an ideal which we can realize only by the intimate progress of our own thought and the efforts of our heart, but as something material, deposited between the leaves of books like a honey fully prepared by others and which we need only take the trouble to reach down from the shelves of libraries and then sample passively in a perfect repose of mind and body.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

The truth is that we all live by leaving behind; no doubt we all profoundly know that we are immortal and that sooner or later every man will do all things and know everything.

Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating useful regularities and seeks truth, it is obliged to legitimate the rules of its own game.

What is the proof that I know something? Most certainly not my saying I know it.

But doesn't it come out here that knowledge is related to a decision?

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

I know the tree, I know the cloud. The only stranger is the voice inside my head.

The belief in their actions can mend constellations. The ambition in their thirst for knowledge can both create and destroy.

And just when you thought that it was all over destiny would make you both meet again!

All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent

We cannot really experience something while we are thinking, not even the act of thinking.

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.

The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.

There are many different routes to discovery.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature is dumb, science is crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.