Quotes About Thought

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

Belief is thought at rest.

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.

In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting.

Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.