Quotes About Thought

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.

It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn't complicated by much in the way of thought.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

The generic notion of culture is coined, therefore, in order to overcome the persistent philosophical opposition between the spiritual and the real, thought and matter, body and mind. The only necessary and irreplaceable component of the concept is the process of structuring, together with its objectified results--man-made structures.

Cuanto mejor protegidos de la contaminación están los valores preservados en el pensamiento, menos relevancia tienen para la vida de aquellos a quienes deberían ser de utilizada.

I lied, therefore I thought.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

He was clearly about to launch into some kind of speech. Eddie thought he'd hear it better if he was standing alongside Jennifer.

Muslims in the West and those in other intellectually free societies will be in a position to contribute to Islamic thought more so than those who are based in repressive environments where censorship and restriction on freedom still dominate thinking. The future development of Islamic thought may depend to a certain extent on the degree of intellectual freedom in Muslim societies.

And this is my most selfish thought, that if I lose the people I love what is left of my own life will consist only of grief.

Our future depends upon our appreciation of the reality of the inner life, of the splendor of thought, of the dignity of wonder and reverence. This is the most important thought: God has a stake in the life of man, of every man. But this idea cannot be imposed from without; it must be discovered by every man; it cannot be preached, it must be experienced.   When

philosophy of religion comes into being when both religion and philosophy claim to offer ideas about ultimate problems.

I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

I'd rather be quiet and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

A rival politician once called Harding's verbiage "an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea. Sometimes these meandering words would actually capture a straggling thought and bear it triumphantly, a prisoner in their midst, until it died of servitude.

I sat there for a moment and thought about my mom. It was her groans of pain that would get me the most. Sometimes they didn't even sound human. Sometimes she sounded like a cow, and for some weird reason, that made me think about hamburgers and I suddenly realized how starved I was.

Geistesgeschichte

How fain I'd speak to those who know mythought, And silence keep to those who yet know nought.

I believe that the vividness experienced in the reading of words is automatically modulated by the constant activation of the reasoning centers of the brain that are used in the process of cocreating the representation of reality the author has intended. By contrast, the visceral vividness portrayed on television has the capacity to trigger instinctual responses similar to those triggered by reality itself -- and without being modulated by logic, reason, and reflective thought.

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is before our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, and new thoughts, new places. Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape.