Quotes About Thought

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.

Each individual garment has its own customizations based on a collaboration between us and the designer. We say what we think our woman wants, and they say, 'This is what we think we can do with our production.'

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

My thinking process starts with my pen.

The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

When you're speaking Spanish, you're thinking in a different way.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had.

There's not a lot of room for thinking in popular culture; there's not a lot of room for being conflicted.

Keynes's contribution was not just to advocate spending government money in the middle of a recession. Every government had done that going back to the days of the Irish potato famine. What he gave to us was a way of thinking about the magnitude and the dimensions and so forth.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.