Quotes About Thought

Not recognizing natural mind is simply an example of the mind's unlimited capacity to create whatever it wants.

I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done.

It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

we sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought. ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you become the part you play.

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Where is the good will in the thought, I was going to throw this in the garbage, do you want to wear it?

While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark.

I don't go out and play football and stuff - that's not me. I want to think, I want to build, I want to talk, I want to create.

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca's experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.

So talk. You can think while you're doing that, since with you the two activities are clearly distinct and mostly unrelated.

Dimness of thought and lack of introspection made many humans less than human, surrendering their precious gifts to a headlong plunge forward, always forward. He'd had his own benighted years, when he would proclaim that he lived only for the present. He had willed himself stupid, because it was an easy thing to do.

She thought to resume crawling, then consciousness slipped away again.

In a body with nothing to do, the mind will dance.

Always keep it simple. Complex ideas make people nervous. Complex ideas as people to think, and people don't want to think.

We rejected civilization, but so too we rejected anarchy for its petty belligerence and the weakness of thought it announced. By these decisions, we made ourselves lost and bereft of purpose

Surely she wouldn't die if she went a few days without water. It might teach her a lesson. It's a pleasing but pointless thought. As much as he might regret it, she was right, he made her a promise.

As the writer Arthur Koestler astutely observed, "Johannes Kepler became enamored with the Pythagorean dream, and on this foundation of fantasy, by methods of reasoning equally unsound, built the solid edifice of modern astronomy. It is one of the most astonishing episodes in the history of thought, and an antidote to the pious belief that the Progress of Science is governed by logic.

Superfluid helium is a realization of the hypothetical quantum liquid that we imagined when performing the thought experiment with the buckets on the staircase. Its behavior is almost surreal.

The word is the atom of the mind

This was the chief underlying principle of Calvin's exposition: He was always seeking to discover the "one definite thought" behind what the biblical author wrote. Calvin believed this was the expositor's first duty:

Good thought." "Brineesha said she'd

Amy Pond: 'I thought... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.' The Doctor: 'Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it. [He Smiles] I am definitely a madman with a box.