Quotes About Cogitation

This fellow has a glimpse of profundity.

George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.

Loquor enim de docto homine et erudito, cui vivere est cogitare

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

Time and space are only forms of thought.

Let's sink another drink, cause it will give me time to think.

It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.

There's a thing I've got i' my head, said Mr. Tulliver at last, in rather a lower tone than usual, as he turned his head and looked steadfastly at his companion.

To be is to think and to be thinkable. To live is to continue thinking and to remember having done so.

If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.

Nulla è piccolo per una grande mente, sentenziò Holmes.

I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding.

Do you always think this much, Charlie?

Do you always thinks this much, Charlie

What are you doing?" "Thinking." "That sounds dangerous.

another long think. Then she said, "Can

Win looked at Myron. Myron raised his eyebrows. Brenda sighed. "Before you two continue your patronizing glances—the ones that say, 'Golly gee, the woman is actually capable of cogitation'—let me add that I'm just giving you a way around the impasse. I don't buy it for a second. It leaves too much unexplained.

LAST NIGHT I lay awake for a long time, a really good "think" for a change.

had enough time to think about it.

Mental masturbation is actually an important concept. It's when you talk in circles for an hour and reach no decision.

I want to create situations that give people something to think about.

For minds and cogitation are, to Leibniz, the ultimate reality, and unless the minds have free will, they are not minds at all but physical mechanisms numbly obeying deterministic rules.

This process of continual internal state-change is the cogitation that is the raison d'être of the monad and the fundamental process of the universe.

The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.