Quotes About Thought

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?

Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

The brain is wider than the sky.

Man is a reasoning, rather than a reasonable animal.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

The material universe exists only in the mind.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.

Could you imagine if we could leapfrog language and communicate directly with human thought? What would we be capable of then? And how will we learn to deal with the truths of unfiltered human thought? You think the Internet was big. These are huge questions.

I find when I'm more awake, I tend to think more of the structure and movement of a tune, abrupt transitions, etc.; things becoming more composed.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

I always believed in curating content, and the only way to do in our country is by turning producer. So then, I thought, lets turn producer and see how it goes.

What it turns out is that we think we're multitasking, but we're not. The brain is sequential tasking: we flit from one thought to the next very, very rapidly, giving us the illusion that what we're doing is doing all these things at once.

I never thought I'd be a TV entrepreneur.

I've always thought that 'Dear White People' should live on as a TV show, so I'll leave it at that.

We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.

I never thought I would tweet - I thought it was too dangerous.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

In an early version of the story, I thought Aang could shepherd a herd of twenty bison.