Quotes About Thought

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

In some causes silence is dangerous.

I tried to leave the city once, for one of those other places. And, my God, the silence. I could hear myself think, and found that I wasn't. I am not designed to be lonely as a cloud.

I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

I never thought people would be remotely interested in my silly little life, but I'm really glad that they are.

I just didn't know that you could have a voice and an authorship over a film, which probably sounds a bit silly. But I just hadn't really thought about films in that way.

In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the process of thinking is carried on.

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

Music, in its clearest and simplest form, can be a catalyst to thought, but that's about it.

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

Think about this carefully, Felicity, before you answer: Is there a

A man is what he himself does, what he thinks, what he learns, his own skills.

Shakespeare asks, "Tell me where is fancy bred…in the heart or in the head?

You think with your head. You know with your heart.

An idea suddenly sat in my head, sunning itself

It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... how much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex, to talk of male and female education and of male and female schools. [written with Elizabeth Cady Stanton]

If one really stopped to think about the insane way the universe is arranged one would go mad in no time, so now and then it's good to laugh, it's therapeutic, it dilutes the pain

At last it occurred to me that I could not continue to sit at my desk, drink whisky and shudder at the thought of the Fordites.

RATIONAL THOUGHT AND a working knowledge of hand-to-hand combat were useless when faced with the villainous power of the American house spider.

Heather thought about how in her day, everyone would have assumed he had a crush on Layla and let it go. Amusing for the adults, but leaving Layla being tormented.

the problem of evil is the guiding force of modern thought.

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little—have few verbal means. Eloquence—thinking in words—is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality.