Quotes About Thought

There is a compassion in rational thought that is sometimes missing in religious conviction.

My mind struggled to formulate a coherent though, any thought. I opened my mouth. Your pajamas have Eeyore on them. I like Eeyore. He's sensible. A sober outlook on life never hurt anyone.

The dark scary servant of all evil was on his way to rescue me. Somehow that thought failed to make me warm and fuzzy.

When I talk to students or young writers about the importance of being unafraid to take controversial positions, I'm struck by the degree to which they can't entertain a thought, much less commit one to paper, without imagining the cacophony of snark they'll get in response.

It's good to make your brain work more than your body.

Spiritual 'exercise' keeps your mind in shape the way physical exercise keeps your body in shape.

An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.

Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.'

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

What is the source of all this trouble? I'm saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that such a statement is crazy, because thought is the one thing we have with which to solve our problems. That's part of our tradition.

Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Over fifteen years of studying the American Right professionally - especially in their communications with each other, in their own memos and media since the 1950s - I have yet to find a truly novel development, a real innovation, in far-right 'thought.'

What I find shocking is that there's this thought process that Hillary Clinton is going to be president of the United States, and to even think of Donald Trump is a joke.

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

The things that are more my own style are something that I don't really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.

You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.

It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers.

There is nothing more dangerous than a philosopher who wants to change the world