Quotes About Thought

You could say all you liked about reason and logic and common sense and imagination, but when the chips were down the one skill you needed was the ability to think about absolutely nothing whatsoever.

Sweet mother if God thought George, surely this was not going to involve him? George? It was.

Una cosa es interesante porque pensamos en ella, no porque sea nueva.

And also, a thing is interesting because of thinking about it and not because of being new.

He thought only of one thing--the geometries before him. Here was God speaking in His simple absolute language, according to the same grammar that He had used to start the planets on their smooth and silken dance.

Recollection could be more powerful and more perilous than experience itself.

Isn't it better to think nothing than to think something that is completely idiotic?

Common or default recruitments are a phenomenon of thought in general: we are always ready to use default conceptual connections as we think. It is important to recognize, however, that common, default recruitments do not give us fixed basic concepts: we can always unplug the default connections; they are, in technical jargon, "defeasible." They look stable and fixed sometimes, but only because they are entrenched.

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

Where is privacy, if not in the mind?

Our reading was subversive, and we knew it... I was now believing books more than I believed what I saw and heard... What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling... What I sought in books was a world (that)... actually matched the exaltation of the interior life.

The mind fits the world and shapes it as a river fits and shapes its own banks.

La gratitud es el pensamiento del corazón.

We are not thinking machines that feel, we are feeling machines that think

I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.

Then there was another picture of some veck I thought I knew, and it was this Minister of the Inferior or Interior.

Torquil Fosdick is a funny boy, isn't he?    He certainly is.    I should think he was—well, at least I mean, you know—at least I should think anyone would think so, wouldn't you?    Oh yes, I should think so. If they took the trouble to think about him, I mean.

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves." —ORISON SWETT MARDEN

She became aware that she had thought the less of him because he had thought the more of her. She had worshipped this other man because he had assumed superiority and had told her that he was big enough to be her master. But now, -- now that it was all too late, -- the veil had fallen from her eyes. She could now see the difference between manliness and 'deportment.

It is seldom that we know anything accurately on any subject that we have not made matter of careful study, said Mr. Monk, and very often do not do so even then. We are very apt to think that we men and women understand one another; but most probably you know nothing even of the modes of thought of the man who lives next door to you.

He's a very handsome man, is the captain, said Jeaneatte. . . You shouldn't think about handsome men, child, said Mrs. Greenow. And I'm sure I don't, said Jeanette. Not more than anybody else; but if a man is handsome, ma'am, why, it stands to reason that he is handsome.

Men who think much want to speak often

It is, however, no doubt, true that thought will not at once produce wisdom. It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. Men, full fledged and at their work, are, for the most part, too busy for much thought; but lads, on whom the work of the world has not yet fallen with all its pressure, — they have time for thinking.

It seems to me that life to him is a load; — which he does not object to carry, but which he knows must be carried with a great struggle." "I suppose it ought to be so with everyone." "Yes," she said, "but the higher you put your foot on the ladder the more constant should be your thought that your stepping requires care. I fear that I am climbing too high