Quotes About Thought

I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth.

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.

In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

Truth happens to an idea

The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.

If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated.

The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.