Daydreaming Quote by John Locke

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

— John Locke

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

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

“Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. To replace thought by reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.”

— Victor Hugo

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

“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

“Thinking is learning all over again to see, to be attentive, to focus consciousness; it is turning every idea and every image, in the…

— Albert Camus

When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we…

— Matthieu Ricard

“The unencumbered mind recalls all that it has read, all that pleased the eye, and delighted the ear, and reflecting on every idea which…

— Attributed to Zimmerman by Henry M. Stanley

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

— Swami Vivekananda