Quotes About Thought

The modern Westerner, persuaded that he has a right to "think for himself" and imagining that he exercises this right, is unwilling to acknowledge that his every thought has been shaped by cultural and historical influences and that his opinions fit, like pieces of jigsaw puzzle, into a pattern which has nothing random about it.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.

I did care... I did say everything I thought In the mildest words I knew. And now,... I have to say I'm relieved it is over: At the end I could feel only pity For that urge toward more life. ...Goodbye

Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover grace.

And yet there's one question whose answer I have thought out, and it suddenly comes to mind . . . 'Stay with me.

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

T]he American fanatic has always suffered moral disorientation at the mere thought of anyone 'getting something for nothing'.

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

To remember is to disengage from the present

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.

And so you face a curious dilemma, one you will face often if you choose to live a life of integrity and challenge. Is it better to consider all ideas, to determine which one seems to you most reasonable and worthy, and then to speak your mind? Or is it better to follow old patterns and to acquiesce quietly into a general conformity?

Exceed not thy actions, but limit not thy mind.

Success requires action, and action requires thought. But

The more we use our mind, the less minding power we have.

Thinking informs actions and actions determine outcomes.

The grand point is not to wear the garb, nor use the brogue of religion, but to possess the life of God within, and feel and think as Jesus would have done because of that inner life. Small is the value of external religion unless it is the outcome of a life within. Charles Spurgeon

And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.

You have a choice about how you react when someone pushes your fear button. No one else controls how you think. No one else controls how you react. You alone do that.