Quotes About Thought

Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance better than most, since a fair amount of what they call work consists of little more than daydreaming edited. Yet anyone who reads for pleasure should prize it too, for what is reading a good book but a daydream at second hand? Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

Human consciousness is always at risk of getting stuck, sending the mind around and around in loops of rumination; mushroom chemicals like psilocybin can nudge us out of those grooves, loosening stuck brains and making possible fresh patterns of thought.

psychedelic therapy creates an interval of maximum plasticity in which, with proper guidance, new patterns of thought and behavior can be learned.

Harris believes that people suffering from a whole range of disorders characterized by excessively rigid patterns of thought—including addiction, obsessions, and eating disorders as well as depression—stand to benefit from "the ability of psychedelics to disrupt stereotyped patterns of thought and behavior by disintegrating the patterns of [neural] activity upon which they rest.

I don't even sing in the shower.

One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.

I thought it was a prank. There is no way six different major labels trying to reach out to me. But it was actually happening.

At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.

I was skeptical about the whole idea of my being in a film.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

Love is the shortcut to meditation. Above thought is love, and within and below thought is love. Love is a ladder that we can climb through thought.

Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.

Love as Thought is Truth.

Love is a warm brain, not a leaping heart.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.

I thought he worked for Heaven.' I thought I was in love.

And there shall be for thee all soft delight That shadowy thought can win, A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in!

As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.

When we think with love, we are literally co-creating with God.

It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.