Quotes About Thought

We are not endeavoring to chain the future, but to free the present. We are not forging fetters for our children, but we are breaking those our fathers made for us. We are the advocates of inquiry, of investigation, and thought. This of itself, is an admission that we are not perfectly satisfied with our conclusions. Philosophy has not the egotism of faith.

It is surely true that few people like to consider themselves enemies of thought and culture. Bush, after all, called himself the "education president" with a straight face while simultaneously declaring, without a trace of self-consciousness or self-criticism, that he rarely read newspapers because that would expose him to "opinions.

They knew that the recognition of a Deity would be seized upon by fanatics and zealots as a pretext for destroying the liberty of thought.

The inseparability of junk science from junk thought is evinced by the telltale marks of endemic illogic coupled, in many instances, with deliberate manipulativeness. The first and most fundamental warning sign is an inability to distinguish between coincidence and causation--a basic requirement for scientific literacy.

The mind boggles, in other words, but the brain toggles- sometimes quite rapidly, from one task to the next.

Please make the pain go away, he thought, uncertain whether he was referring to her or to the headache.

The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself.

Most writing doesn't take place on the page; it takes place in your head.

On a library bookshelf, thought progresses in a way that is logical but also dumbfounding, mysterious, irresistible.

My feelings about women in general have been shaped by mother in particular--and Placidia, while nearly always loving and approachable to her children, raised us on a Spartan diet of independent thought, moral integrity, and self-reliance that has shaped our relations with the world, making our paths more difficult but the journey more meaningful.

language helps create our reality.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

He was suddenly uneasy, as if he'd just begun to think about me, the kind of person I might be, the way that I might think.

It's like trying to remember a dream," I said. "It's in me somewhere.

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive;

A little thought can save a lot of lives.

Manusia memiliki ingatan yang pendek. [P. 18]

I had a thought," Bradshaw said into the silence. "Amazing," Tristan returned dryly.

You're still home?" I ask. "It's not even curfew." "Thought I'd grace you all with my presence." She pauses to smile.

Actions are the louder expression of thought. The quality of thought is ordered by the nature of our inner belief and faith.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

If the subject is a good one, we shall feel friendly towards it; if the subject of thought is one that is miserable, we must be merciful towards it. If it is good, we must be glad; if it is evil, we must be indifferent.

The great men think, and you and I [also] think. But there is a difference.