Quotes About Thought

I briefly contemplated how difficult it would be to safely remove my hand.

I took a moment just to process the creature's huge size.""Huh"", I managed, proving my mastery of articulation. Then it hit me. Not a thought; the dragon literally hit me, with a tail the size of a wagon.

Probert knew, as an absolute certainty, that the British way of life and thought was by far the best on Earth. All others could only aspire to be English. Thomas was speaking nonsense – he must be.

A ja my?l?, ?e ca?e z?o tego ?wiata bierze si? z my?lenia. Zw?aszcza w wykonaniu ludzi ca?kiem ku temu nie maj?cych predyspozycji.

What a hideous smile I have, Geralt thought, reaching for his sword. What a hideous face I have. And how hideously I squint. So that is what I look like? Damn.

Geralt Roger Eric du Haute-Bellegarde. Vesemir thought it was ridiculous; pretentious and idiotic. I dare say he was right.

Please. I'd prefer to be thought of as a supernatural creature armed with a supernatural weapon. They hire me to be that and pay me to be that. Normality, meanwhile, is the same as banality, and banality is cheap. So I ask you to keep your trap shut. Promise?" "Have it your way. I promise.

She shuddered even more intensely. And calmed down. I'm alive, she thought, looking around. It's not the end of the battle. Death will end the fight, everything else only interrupts it. They taught me that at Kaer Morhen.

How you think is massively influenced and largely determined by what you read, hear, and watch.

However, for programmers, combining rich, flexible human thought with the rigid constraints of a digital computer exposes the power and the deepest flaws of both.

Did you ever hear one of those corny, positive messages on someone's answering machine? 'Hi, it's a great day and I'm out enjoying it right now. I hope you are too. The thought for the day is share the love. Beep.' 'Uh, yeah, this is the VD clinic… speaking of being positive, your test is back. Stop sharing the love.

Yes, dangerous: think a little, if you're capable of thought, and you'll see that it's safer to obey a law however stupid it may be than to act freely; because to act freely, unless you're as wicked as certain emperors, is to seek a just law; and if you make a mistake, you've taken the first step towards power, which is what destroys men.

A man doesn't know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it.

Aunt Zelda always said: the thought is the seed for deed.

I don't work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream--now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock. In the context of a story, a fairly boring thought in a character's head can work better than a brilliant one, and a brilliantly laid-out structure can be so much worse for a story than one that is more haphazard.

Expletive], she thought. I must be light-headed. Thinking I can understand that pair. That's what exercise does to you. And having nothin to eat all day except a packet of biscuits.

She could make no more demands. He wasn't sure whether the thought pleased or dismayed him.

In our skulls, we carry around 3 pounds of slimy, wet, greyish tissue, corrugated like crumpled toilet paper. You wouldn't think, to look at the unappetizing lump, that it was some of the most powerful stuff in the known universe.

Fearless means trusting your instincts and clarity of thought. Once you have made up your mind, don't be scared of what if.

Even if trolley problems were a realistic concern for AVs, it is not clear what, if anything, regulators or companies developing AVs should do about them. The trolley problem is an intensely debated thought experiment precisely because there isn't a consensus on what should be done.

Always make the choice to learn. What Princeton taught me was whatever mess you are studying, pull a thread with great persistence 'til you have clarity of thought. Princeton taught me how to solve a problem. How to think - that's what we pull out of this place.

All too often, we see politicians on both sides desperately twisting themselves into partisan-hack pretzels, for the sole purpose of defending their own 'team' or attacking the other, without any thought to principles or values whatsoever.

I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we'd never have invented the wheel.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.