Quotes About Thought

Sin duda el ideal es una cierta rigidez de acción, más una cierta flexibilidad de pensamiento, pero esto es difícil de lograr en la práctica excepto durante los breves períodos de transición. Y parece probable que, si las viejas ortodoxias decaen, surjan nuevos códigos rígidos según las necesidades del conflicto.

Ideas are merely points that memory selects in the flow of thought

Whatever can be thought of is an idea in the mind of the person thinking of it; therefore, nothing can be thought of except ideas in minds; therefore, anything else is inconceivable, and what is inconceivable cannot exist.

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

Men fear thought as they do 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.

In daily life, we assume as certain many things which, on a closer scrutiny, are found to be so full of apparent contradictions that only a great amount of thought enables us to know what it is that we really may believe.

The energy used in thinking seems to have a chemical origin; for instance, a deficiency of iodine will turn a clever man into an idiot.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death.

How is it possible to bring order out of memory?

You can make a decision with your head. It still takes your heart a while to catch up with it.

The peace of God, which surpasses every thought, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:7

The party where humorless thought police work to enforce a rigid ideological discipline isn't made up of Democrats. It comprises Republicans.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

I reserve the right to think many different things and to change my mind and to even be wrong.

I've tried to shut myself off as much as possible from the hype of 'War Horse,' and just thought, 'OK, I'm going to focus on the character and focus on the story and focus on what I have to do.'

I was too shy to be in films. But, my father thought it would work for me. It took a lot of time for me to think about getting into films.

In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.

When I signed the license, I thought the media wasn't going to pick up on it if I used my real name, Nicholai Hilton.

When I signed my movie contract, I thought I could never even have an opinion on a movie. But now, I've realized I have a lot of opinions.

The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.

I didn't dig it out, it was given to me. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.