Quotes About Thought

I think, therefore I am... confused.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

all higher levels of thinking are dependent on language.

Religious rectitude is the sanctuary of the intellectually reticent

Everyone's shut off their minds So I'll turn on mine

Your favourite quality in a woman?: Thought. Your favourite virtue?: Faithfulness.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

Television is a performance, but apps actually reflect thought processes.

It's what people have always done. They have always told stories, put on plays. It's characters and narrative and thought and context and resolution so you reflect the way the world is in some way. It comes out of experience. I think it's OK to do that.

I've always reflected on the game.

Reflection makes men cowards.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.

Usually, when I'm having a good time, I don't think about it that much. I tend to become more reflective or introspective.

The way I make music reflects the way I think.

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.

No one should be so precious as to refuse criticism of their work. But to respect an opinion, we have to know that it was given honestly and with proper thought.

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.

I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy, as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.