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Quotes About Thought

I never really thought about getting married - it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time.
~ Scarlett Johansson
Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time.
~ Terry Pratchett
a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.
~ Walter J. Phillips
Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.
~ William Wetmore Story
Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?
~ Georgia Douglas Johnson
I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.
~ Greg Egan
Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.
~ John Ford
A handful of red sand from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.
~ Isabel Burton
Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.
~ John William Draper
when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural
~ Lewis Carroll
It takes a long time for words to become thought.
~ May Sarton
It's quite an unfair thought that Microsoft are trying to control our gaming, they're trying to force us to be online all the time. [People] didn't really think that through.
~ Peter Molyneux
To me, the movie is more funny if, at the same time, you can think a little bit or dream a little bit.
~ Quentin Dupieux
A long time ago, Descartes sad, "I think, therefore I am." But if you are not thinking, what?
~ Seungsahn
He [Wladimir Klitschko] likes silence when he fights because it gives him time and room to think. He doesn't like things to get chaotic or crazy.
~ Tyson Fury
If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.
~ William Goldman
We're actually making not one but 30 choices at a time: Our mind is making a choice. Our heart's making choices.
~ Caroline Myss
One time I saw an old man in a hurry and I thought, 'That makes sense.'
~ Demetri Martin
One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.
~ Aldous Huxley
If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.
~ Francis Bacon
…beating time along the edge of thought.
~ Sylvia Plath