Quotes About Thought

We are all creatures of logic, at root. Of little switches turning on and off in our heads, metaphorically speaking.

Es que a veces la gente utiliza el pensamiento para no implicarse en la vida.

Do you always think this much, Charlie?" "Is that bad?" I just wanted someone to tell me the truth. "Not necessarily. It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life." Is that bad? Yes.

É só que às vezes as pessoas usam o pensamento para não participar da vida.

Es que a veces la gente usa el pensamiento para no participar en la vida.

The trance happens when you don't focus on anything.

All men are. I declare, I think you to be the most incomprehensible creatures.

IF LOVE LOVES, THERE IS NO WORLD NOR WORD. ALL IS LOST SAVE THOUGHT OF LOVE AND PLACE TO DREAM.

It was difficult to think of reputation when others were thinking of skins.

The seeding of Gaia gave us meaning, a germination of thought into shape. Seminal semantic semiology from the semen of the sky.

If you wouldn't mind coming with us, sir? I am arresting you now and will shortly make a formal charge at the station.' I was so happy, so blissfully, radiantly, wildly happy that if I could have sung I would have sung. If I could have danced I would have danced. I was free. At last I was free. I was going on a journey now where every decision would be taken for me, every thought would be thought for me and every day planned for me. I was going back to school.

was generally thought that all knowledge of the world could be obtained through direct observation

The Aristotelian tradition also held that one could work out all the laws that govern the universe by pure thought:

Teori hanya ada dalam akal budi kita dan tak punya realitas lain.

Ne f?urim concepte mentale despre c?minul nostru, despre copaci, despre al?i oameni, despre electricitatea care curge din prize, despre atomi, molecule ?i alte universuri. Aceste concepte mentale sunt singura realitate pe care o cunoa?tem.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Time is a keyhole, he thought as he looked up at the stars. Yes, I think so. We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do - the wind that blows through the keyhole- is the breath of all the living universe.

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.

A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave.

The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.

It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn't complicated by much in the way of thought.