Quotes About Thought

modern thought has arrived at an impasse, unable to come to a consensus on what constitutes man and his specific dignity, and consequently unable to define the rights of man.

Notre tête est ronde pour permettre à la pensée de changer de direction.

The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?

To think without saying is to hold an armed grenade without throwing it.

El que lo piensa todo primero, no escribe nada después.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.

Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.

The point about words is—the better you use them, the stronger is the thought that wears them.

Only the effort of walking calmed me, and allowed me to think at all. p 227

The heart is the first feature of working minds.

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Man is a rational animal. But that does not mean that he is a reasonable animal. It means only that he has reason, and therefore can misuse it. If he had not reason, he could not be unreasonable. But he has, and is.

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

Until Henry Ford saw the chance to get free publicity (making Sub-chasers) he thought submarines were something to eat.

The only right memory, is the one that first comes to you.

Truth is irrelavant to the treading out of brain paths.

Truth is irrelevant to the treading out of brain paths.

truth is entirely irrelevant to the treading out of brain path

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

We are so logic-driven that we can't stand the absence of it.