Quotes About Thought

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Hymns of today that may be sung by people who know the thought of the age...are not afraid that any truth of science will destroy Christianity, or any revolution will overthrow the Kingdom of Heaven.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

An action made by an unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common thought and interpretation.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

The mind is matter in and of itself, but I don't mind, and it doesn't matter.

Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.

Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze.

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

Doubt is what keeps the heart and mind of every man alive. It 's what makes us think twice.

An action made by a unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common though and interpretation.

[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.

Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

Soon the sun beams will smile through. Before you jump out of that bed, just know, the thought of you was the first thing that hit my head. Good morning my darling.