Quotes About Thought

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

Thinking is itself, however, an adventure.

Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable.

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.

I've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think.

Wherever you are, at whatever age, you're only a thought away from changing your life.

Maybe life on earth could be heaven, doesn't just the thought of it make it worth a try?

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

I had the unsettling thought that the natural world around me had become a kind of camouflage.

If the Bible provides us with the only cohesive system of thought that allows us to properly interpret all of reality, why is it so hated and rejected by so many? If the truth claims of the Bible are logically demonstrable, why is it so despised and ridiculed by some of the brightest and smartest minds?

As Schell had taught me, "a con starts when there is something you want and you are blocked from attaining it by certain obstacles. The good con artist elicits the assistance of those who mean to stand in the way of one's attainment by appealing to their vanity, pride, jealousy, ignorance, or fear. One must first throw into a pile the expected rules of engagement, morality, society, and thought, set them on fire, and then proceed. Think big, have confidence.