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Quotes About Thought

I thought about my mother and wondered what she realized about her mental health, if she was even capable of engaging in serious introspection. Probably
~ Harlan Coben
As Myron dashed back and forth in the wave of basketball action, a thought sneaked in through the back door of his brain. The thought stayed on the fringes, hiding behind a couch, popping into view every once in a while before ducking back down again. You can do this, the thought taunted. You can play with them. Myron
~ Harlan Coben
Time was doing the in 'n' out thing. Probably a second, maybe two, had passed since Karen's execution. That was all. And now, with no time to think or plan, I was nearly on him. But
~ Harlan Coben
There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.
~ James Geary
I've always played around in my own mind with what a Wilburys tour could be. Would each person do a solo set and then do Wilburys at the end, or would we all go on right from beginning to end and make everything Wilburys? It's an intriguing thought.
~ George Harrison
We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.
~ Kathy Valentine
Stardom is a crazy thought. If that's what my path is, then that's where I'm excited to be headed towards.
~ Kehlani
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
We're making music to help people think and bring them together, that's our role; we're not siding with anybody
~ Steve Diggle
No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.
~ Alexander Meiklejohn
Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Direct your mind where you want it to travel instead of always going for the ride.
~ Kris Carr
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
~ James Jeans
The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
~ Agnes Repplier
As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.
~ Wendell Berry
I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.
~ Suraj Sharma
Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
~ Helen Keller
I give every page a lot of thought. Probably too much, these days. At the end of the day, you've gotta trust your gut and hope for the best.
~ Greg Capullo
Trust me, when they read the [Oscar] results, my face was...frozen. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to...let it go.
~ Pharrell Williams