Ideas Quote by John Locke

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

— John Locke

Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since…

— Gaston Bachelard

The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding…

— Gaston Bachelard

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

— Gaston Bachelard

“A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work,…

— Victor Hugo

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

— Victor Hugo

Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the…

— Rollo May

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

— John C. Maxwell

In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the…

— William Godwin

Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.

— John C. Maxwell

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source…

— Victor Hugo

“Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plentitude of the soul. —GASTON BACHELARD”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach