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Quotes About Thought

Never, never will the grey cells function unless you stimulate them.
~ Agatha Christie
The wish to kill and the action of killing are two different things.
~ Agatha Christie
Subsiding on to his seat Mr. Blore thought to himself: He's nearer the day of judgment than I am! But there, as it happens, he was wrong….
~ Agatha Christie
She paused for a moment, turning things over in her mind.
~ Agatha Christie
De taal is een instrument in handen van de gedachte, je moet je helder en exact uitdrukken.
~ Aharon Appelfeld
and the thought of relieving my mourning, even slightly, for a moment filled me with a kind of fear.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
Man has invented Google, through which anything we can find, but have YOU ever wondered, who Created the Mind?
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
The hardest part of anything in life is thinking about it.
~ Ajahn Brahm
There's only one book worth reading: the mind
~ Ajahn Chah
Kenzo had no grudge against the American victors, and he thought of saying, "Their appalling tattoos didn't keep them from winning the war.
~ Akimitsu Takagi
Dangerous Visions, which had, almost single-handedly, changed the way readers thought about science fiction. Since Ellison had been at least partially successful
~ Al Sarrantonio
Since it is sure of its ability to control the entire domain of the visible and the audible via the laws governing commercial circulation and democratic communication, Empire no longer censures anything. All art, and all thought, is ruined when we accept this permission to consume, to communicate and to enjoy. We should become the pitiless censors of ourselves.
~ Alain Badiou
The audacity of thought is not to repeat 'to the limit' that which is already entirely retained within the situation which the limit limits; the audacity of thought consists in crossing a space where nothing is given. We must learn once more how to succeed.
~ Alain Badiou
4.23..If 'thought' means: instance of the subject in a truth-procedure, then there is no thought of this thought, because it contains no knowledge.
~ Alain Badiou
Si somos capaces de ser más fuertes que la muerte, no es en la fiesta de la vida, sino dominando el infinito mismo por medio del pensamiento.
~ Alain Badiou
Raquel Welch, whom I've met but never kissed, once called the brain an erogenous zone.
~ Alan Alda
I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is."
~ Alan Arkin
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
~ Alan Bennett
She probably thought I was making a dumb joke, but sometimes history sounded like a dumb joke. History was either a dumb joke or a cruel joke.
~ Alan DeNiro
The deed is nothing. It is the thought that breeds fear; and we achieve little by lingering.
~ Alan Garner
the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.
~ Alan Jacobs
His first thought was that an electrical storm was approaching. There were
~ Alan Russell
Watkins, S.B.,
~ Alan S. Kahan
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
~ Alan Turing