Quotes About Thought

She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with no writing inside it.

It was only a dream. It was only a larval poem. —

I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew he meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So that's how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before.

Some might call the overthrowing of an illegitimate government an act of treason; without a doubt, many have had this thought about me. Now that you have joined us, it is the same thought that others will have about you. But loyalty to a higher truth is not treason, for the ways of God are not the ways of man, and they are most emphatically not the ways of woman.

Chewing with my mind full. Stuff comes out my mouth." And

I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed. There's a lot that doesn't bear thinking about. Thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last.

Our minds see things that our eyes cannot. I suppose something continues to exist until the mind that sees it no longer exists.

As though she thought I was to blame for what happened," Scarlett thought indignantly.

There was a look of consternation in them, of incredulity and something more - what was it? Yes, Gerald had looked that way the day his pet hunter had broken his leg and he had had to shoot him. Why did she have to think of that now? Such a silly thought. And why did Ashley look so oddly and say nothing?

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision in man's conception of the universe and his relation to it

Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we must think to give thanks.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

Don't you think it's time we thought about the future? Whether our children are gonna be winners or losers

No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.