Flashes Of Thought Quotes

#1. Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought.

Stendhal

#2. On dope he sometimes thought that all the televisions on Calchalk Street were softly cackling about Richard Tull: news flashes about his most recent failures, panel discussions about his obscurity, his neglect.

Martin Amis

#3. All hail that bane of the upper class, a scene. The spectre of being publicly shamed

Marie Brennan

#4. We don't earn God's love; we receive it. We don't work for His approval; He approves us.

Dillon Burroughs

#5. There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

Fernando Pessoa

#6. The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together.

J.M. Coetzee

#7. Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

Douglas Hofstadter

#8. The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

John Tyndall

#9. Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral world, visible to the astral sight.

Annie Besant

#10. One hears but one does not seek; one takes
one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. It seemed a tragedy to want nothing - and yet he wanted something, something. He knew in flashes what it was - some path of hope to lead him toward what he thought was an imminent and ominous old age.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#12. Thought can wing its way
Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam
That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

James Gates Percival

#13. I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.

J.K. Rowling