Quotes About Thought

Her reflection had hidden something from her. This, Valkyrie thought to herself, is probably not a good sign.

A phone beeped quietly and she woke. It was morning. Friday the 30th of April. One day before May 1st, and Greta Dapple's birthday, and the Summer of Light, when the world would tear itself apart. What a cheery, happy thought to wake up to.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

I think, therefore I laugh.

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.

Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind.

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

Crisis moments create opportunity. Problems and crises ignite our greatest creativity and thought leadership as it forces us to focus on things outside the norm.

So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.