Quotes About Thought

That's the woman's soul. That's her inside." My friends regarded me questioningly. "It's what can't be buried," I explained wildly and vaguely. "It's what makes you laugh or cry and love people and hate people. It's—it's feeling and thinking and—it's what can't be put in the ground.

And, you know, what we need to do—[applause]what we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought, and we need to concentrate on being respectful to those people with whom we disagree.

Do you have a brain?" And if the answer was yes, then she said, "Then you could have thought your way out of it.

we must guard against a tendency to require monolithic thought as imposed by political correctness.

Memory,' wrote the Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, is a process of organizing what to forget.

I could imagine it in a way that felt like remembering

Some talked,some wrote, and some fought to promote and establish it, but you, Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson thought for us all

It was funny, Richard Sharpe thought, that there were no vultures in England.

Sharpe did not expect them to provide an answer, but he wanted them to think through the steps, to know the argument, so that when he provided the solution, they would agree.

Pero la acción no se limita a llevar a cabo lo que he pensado y decidido previamente. Surge de una fuente propia, y es tan independiente como lo es mi pensamiento y lo son mis decisiones.

Pienso, llego a una conclusión, la conclusión cristaliza en una decisión, y entonces me doy cuenta de que la acción es algo aparte, algo que puede seguir a la decisión, pero no necesariamente

Ich meine nicht, daß Denken und Entscheiden keinen Einfluß auf das Handeln hätten. Aber das Handeln vollzieht nicht einfach, was davor gedacht und entschieden wurde. Es hat seine eigene Quelle und ist auf ebenso eigenständige Weise mein Handeln, wie mein Denken ist und mein Entscheiden mein Entscheiden.

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

The question is how to arrive at your opinions and not what your opinions are.

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The habit of thinking in terms of comparison is a fatal one.

You may kill an artist or a thinker, but you cannot acquire his art or his thought.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It is clear also that thought is not free if all the arguments on one side of a controversy are perpetually presented as attractively as possible, while the arguments on the other side can only be discovered by diligent search.

The object of education ought not to be to make all men think alike, but to make each think in the way which is the fullest expression of his own.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.