Quotes About Thought

When thought overwhelms the mind, the mind uses the world," psychologist Barbara Tversky has observed.

Concluded Helga and Tony Noice in one of their academic articles, "One might paraphrase Descartes and say, 'I move, therefore I remember.'

I never even thought about playing professionally. I didn't think that was a possibility for a little kid from Illinois.

I had never really thought of myself as a baby person, but it's just a really profound connection.

The brain sure as hell doesn't work by somebody programming in rules.

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

I didn't ever think of it as a social thing at the time. I took it as a good story. Maybe because I've always been kind of progressive so I never thought of it, you know.

'White supremacist' and 'white nationalist' aren't like 'meanypants' - you can't just attach them to people you don't like without any thought to the consequences. The progressive Left has done it to ordinary Americans for decades. The result? President Trump.

There should be complete freedom of thought for a progressive society.

I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

The people who hate us, I don't think they are wrong. That's what they think, and I promote thought.

I don't hover over the thought of only playing a protagonist.

The state has not only the obligation to stay neutral in matters of religion but also to ensure that freedom of thought and conscience of all individuals is protected.

Dream not thou that force is power; Nor, if thou hast a thought, and that thought sour And sick, oh, dream not thought is wisdom!

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good...

This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

The sea, he thought, had treasured its memories deeper than the faithless land.

An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

All thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: The man on the street heard the conclusions of some dead genius through someone else's clever paradoxes and didactic epigrams.