Quotes About Thought

For the thinking person there is no such thing as idleness... By contrast, one might say that the thinking person is at his most active when he is supposedly doing nothing. This is beyond the comprehension of genuinely idle people

But we don't always have to be studying something, I thought, it's perfectly enough merely to think, to do nothing but think and give our thoughts free rein. To give in to our philosophical worldview, simply submit to our philosophical worldview, but that's the hardest thing, I thought. Wertheimer

When we think, we know nothing, everything is open, nothing, so Roithamer.

Die Menge ist ja ein Phänomen, das Menschenmengenphänomen, das mich schon immer beschäftigt hat.

Part of pattern recognition is talent, but a whole lot of it is practice: if you read enough and give what you read enough thought, you begin to see patterns, archetypes, recurrences.

Since it is in the nature of consciousness to be reflective, we can never fully inhabit any conscious state that we are in, so that our 'restlessness' lies in the very nature of our being.

Thought failed him, and he returned to realities.

She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.

her presence had not so much weight as to task thought, and yet enough to exercise it.

Matter is matter, and mental association only a delusion.

It seemed impossible that modern thought could house itself in such decrepit and superseded chambers.

think it with all your heart, said he. It is a pleasant thought, and costs nothing.

This was an even more unknown tract of the unknown. Space here, being less the historic haunt of human thought than overhead at home, seemed to be pervaded with a more lonely loneliness.

Kad?n asl?nda düÅŸünen bir bütün müdür, yoksa her zaman tümleyicisini arayan bir kesir mi?

For a moment - only for a moment - when they were in the turning of the drive, between the tall rhododendrons and conifers, before the lodge became visible, he inclined his face towards her as if - but, no: he thought better of it and let her go.

Graye was handsome, frank, and gentle. He had a quality of thought which, exercised on homeliness, was humour; on nature, picturesqueness; on abstractions, poetry. Being, as a rule, broadcast, it was all three. Of the wickedness of the world he was too forgetful. To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience: to him it was ever a surprise.

It was not exactly the fault of the hut, she observed in a tone which showed her to be that novelty among women—one who finished a thought before beginning the sentence which was to convey it.

We assign a moment to decision, to dignify the process as a timely result of rational and conscious thought. But decisions are made of kneaded feelings; they are more often a lump than a sum.

He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited them might have liked them too. But the madman would like them better the way they were now.

She thought for an instant of her late parents. She wondered if they would be ashamed of her now—just that question, not its pertinence, no qualifications—the way we always ask it.

We assign a moment to decision, to dignify the process as a timely result of rational and conscious thought. But decisions are made of kneaded feelings; they are more often a lump than a sum. Pazzi

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in mind. ALPHONSE BERTILLON

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind. —ALPHONSE BERTILLON

By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.