Quotes About Thought

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

There is a very genuine belief that without diversity of thought, companies can't innovate.

Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.

I acted in 'Kaante' because Sanjay Gupta insisted me to do it. At that time, I had never thought that I would be acting in films.

I've never been a die-hard Beyonce fan. I always thought she was inspirational and beautiful.

The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.

I love the immediacy of Instagram. My feed really is my train of thought. If I'm really excited about something, I'll just put it up.

So many of our institutions have been overtaken by schools of thought, which are inherently a dead end.

Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

I've never allowed my specific personal practice or belief to be overtly integrated to the music. Because that's crossing the line into, 'We want you to think this.' And that's not what we're about.

Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

We intellectuals are not stupid: we know the phenomenology of guilt is a bad photocopy of the phenomenology of thought, so it's much cheaper to press that button.

I was born in Belgium but I never intended to play for Belgium. I never thought about that.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.

Writing is essentially an internal process.

The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' of Europe - will be whether political thought and national feelings are influenced by the reality of internationalism.

A woman who was about Jacaranda's age approached them. She was what Jacaranda thought of as "one of those Vassar graduates who can spell from birth.

If critical analysis of repression is itself inseparable from repression, then surely to think with any efficacy has to be think in some distinctly different way.

the night of thought is the light of perception.

The visionary is a mystic when his vision mediates to him an actuality beyond the reach of the senses. The philosopher is a mystic when he passes beyond thought to the pure apprehension of truth. The active man is a mystic when he knows his actions to be a part of a greater activity.