Quotes About Thought

She did not need now to forget what she had seen; and, not needing to forget it—thus are our brains fashioned—she was able to forget it.

Men of thought, agile on the plane of ideas, devils of fellows among books, they groped feebly in this matter of actual life and death.

The turbot that came after the soup, the champagne that succeeded the sherry, helped to quicken in these men of thought the power to grapple with a reality.

Worry rose up on a bubble of realization.

Terror is a powerful weapon. Terror clouds thought.

Panic drowns thought," I told the zombie, "so it's time to stop panicking and start figuring out how to survive.

I had said what I never meant to say, but what has been said cannot be unsaid, I enjoyed our silence, I was completely sober again, but all the same I had no idea what I was thinking, probably nothing.

The God of my childhood was an old, white, Vandyck-bearded Father Time, who roared up thunder, then puffed out His cheeks and blew down hurricanes on His errant children. He could be placated only if one fell prostrate, groveled and begged for mercy. I didn't like that God, but He did seem more real than a Maker who was just thought and spirit. I wished for a Someone in between.

I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something.

The only way, I thought to myself, that this could get any weirder would be if it turns out he has that dead body's head on ice where in the basement, some ready for transplantation onto Cindy Crawford's body as soon as it becomes available.

Is that what the wine is for? To help you think? Oh, the wine. The wine, Costis, is to help hide the truth. It doesn't work. It never has, but I try it every once in a while just in case something in the nature of the wine might have changed.

Ariq's fingers caught in her hair, tugged her close. "This is why," he said roughly againstwhy I wanted you from almost the moment I pulled you from the water. The way you think. You're like an arrow." And sometimes a squirrel, scampering this way and that, wildly collecting nuts. her lips. "This is

Ariq's fingers caught in her hair, tugged her close. "This is why," he said roughly against her lips. "This is why I wanted you from almost the moment I pulled you from the water. The way you think. You're like an arrow." And sometimes a squirrel, scampering this way and that, wildly collecting nuts.

The gods gave you a brain, boy,' he'd say. 'If you want to honor them, use it.

He held out the bottle. Clarice's hand was steady as she took it from him. It is poison , she thought distantly. It will kill her. She tried to be horrified at the thought, but she couldn't manage it.

Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.

From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order...

I want a big breakfast, said Fuchsia at last. I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.

Thinking is a search for siblings. Yet if thinking is a search for siblings, it also depends on finding the right distance – Abstand – from these siblings.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

Usually, fundamentalists, be they Christian, Muslim, or any faith, shape and interpret religious thought to make it conform to and legitimize a conservative status quo. Fundamentalist thinkers use religion to justify supporting imperialism, militarism, sexism, racism, homophobia. They deny the unifying message of love that is at the heart of every major religious tradition.

Most people have no understanding of the myriad ways feminism has positively changed all our lives. Sharing feminist thought and practice sustains feminist movement. Feminist knowledge is for everybody.

There is a gap between the values they claim to hold and their willingness to do the work of connecting thought and action, theory and practice to realize these values and thus create a more just society.

Everything we do in life is rooted in theory. Whether we consciously explore the reasons we have a particular perspective or take a particular action there is also an underlying system shaping our thought and practice.