Quotes About Thought

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior.

You have to have an objective, a goal, some thought process, some strategy in your mind for whatever you do. Otherwise it's a waste of time.

The overall concept comes first and then that informs the product, the shoot and how we communicate it. Everything comes back to the concept. It all gets thought about at the same time.

Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.

People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think.

This time, it was more of a thought than a feeling, a soft heat that began at her mouth and unfurled through the rest of her.

I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

It's always awkward when someone doesn't realize you're joking and devotes thought time to what you've said. Double that when the person is wearing tinfoil.

We walk from nowhere to nowhere, but at least during our journey we have time to think on how to be able to change this ambiguity!

A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds.

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Nothing exists. All is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you…. And you are not you—you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought.

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

He had been drunk over in town, and laid in the gutter all night, and he was a sight to look at. A body would a thought he was Adam, he was just all mud.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And You are but a Thought — a vagrant Thought, a useless Thought, a homeless Thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

They forget to mention that he is the slowest mover in the universe; that his Eye that never sleeps, might as well, since it takes it a century to see what any other eye would see in a week; that in all history there is not an instance where he thought of a noble deed first, but always thought of it just a little after somebody else had thought of it and done it. He arrives then, and annexes the dividend.

It is all a dream – a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought – a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. But