Quotes About Thought

I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

We're all confused, Samantha. We all need more time to think. That's life. Get over it.

Sick and disoriented, I'm able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life.

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.

Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.

What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.

Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.

Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.

If a husband expresses a thought alone in the middle of the woods," so the joke goes, "is he still wrong?" Probably so.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. [Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. [Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Evanlyn smiled grimly as she thought how once she might have objected to the cruelty of the bird's death. Now, all she felt was a sense of satisfaction as she realized that they would eat well today. Amazing how an empty belly could change your perspective, she thought.

Sometimes, he thought wryly, a reputation for being right all the time could be a heavy burden.

The dog, he thought, was wiser and more kindly natured than he was.

Just time for a mug of coffee in the meanwhile." Crowley was already beginning to work on a third arrow. "Good idea," he said. Then he frowned as a thought struck him. "Have you noticed that Leander puts milk in his coffee?" Halt grunted. "The man's a savage." Crowley raised an eyebrow. "This from the man who laces his coffee with honey?" "Honey is natural," Halt told him. "Milk is little short of an abomination.

Good idea," he said. Then he frowned as a thought struck him. "Have you noticed that Leander puts milk in his coffee?" Halt grunted. "The man's a savage." Crowley raised an eyebrow. "This from the man who laces his coffee with honey?" "Honey is natural," Halt told him. "Milk is little short of an abomination.

Rikard nodded. Once Andras and the Raven's crew members left, he thought, he'd give them time to get clear. Then he and his men would head for the Stingray, moored against the quay in the inner harbor. Let Raven's crew do the fighting, he thought. They could keep the enemy occupied while Stingray slipped away.