Quotes About Thought

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

and you thought beauty was the outward show - but now you know the truth, my Love - it's always been the inner fire...

the heart's not an organ but a whisper in your head ...

if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...

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.

I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.

I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct and searching. To take the trail and not look back..Let the rest of mankind find me if it could.

Disgust was an organ in Hunt's gut. The more he thought about it, the more it churned.

It is thy very energy of thoughtWhich keeps thee from thy God.

Look ere ye leap.

Isaac looked for a grand patter to the Universe. He spent long periods lost in thought. Then suddenly he dashed off several pages without pausing.

To me the ideal film - which I've never succeeded in making - would be as though the reel were behind one's eyes and you were projecting it yourself, seeing what you wish to see. This has a great deal in common with thought processes ... That's why I think the camera is an eye as well as a mind. Everything we do with the camera has physiological and mental significance.

It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes.

Then go faster. But don't go stupid.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

What harm is done by that commonplace word? What distinctions will not, cannot be drawn where enemy holds sway? Is the concept "enemy" the enemy of clear thought, therefore of justice? What is gained by its invocation? Perhaps as important, what is lost?

Psychoanalysis teaches one thing, he thought: Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. A single bad act can have all sorts of repercussions.

He glanced down at his wrist-watch, felt a pang of loneliness crease across his heart. For a single second, he wondered what time it was back home in Vermont, and he had trouble remembering whether it was earlier or later. Then he dismissed this unfair thought when he realized that if he did not hurry, he would be late for the beginning of that morning's proceedings.

Locura -pensó-. Pero una locura con un inconfundible toque de inteligencia, porque provocará que me sume a ella".

Thought is forever attempting to find form, is always looking for an outlet, is always trying to manifest itself. It is the nature of thought to try and materialize into its physical equivalent.

Thought is everything. Pain is something. Hence where there is no thought there can be no pain. Wherefore if you have a pain it is evident that you have a thought. To be rid of the pain stop thinking.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.

One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.