Quotes About Thought

The thought has occurred to millions of men, while shaving; the removal of life might be preferred to, the removal of hair.

I've got to get back to the typewriter, I thought. Art takes discipline. Any asshole can chase a skirt. I drank, thinking about it. At

I saw her walk in out of the corner of my eye. Why do they say "corner of the eye"? Eyes have no corners.

This thing about fucking was nice. It gave people extra things to think about.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.

I had also, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely that whenever published fact, a new observation of thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones.

The imagination is one of the highest prerogatives of man.

Why is thought being a secretion of brain, more wonderful than gravity a property of matter? It is our arrogance, our admiration of ourselves.

This is really life, this is doing something in the world, and in the presence of it you can see why the creators of it regard your world, which seemed to you so important, the world whose business is the evolution and expression of thought and emotion, as insignificant.

In art and literature we require not only an expression of the facts in nature and in human life, but of feeling, thought, emotion. There must be an appeal to the universal in the race.

Father of Personal Development.

method of thinking.

Every thing and institution we see around us, created by human agency, had first to exist as a thought in some human mind. Thought therefore is constructive. Human thought is the spiritual power of the cosmos operating through its creature man.

Inman's only thought looking on the enemy was, Go home.

The most efficient kind of censorship isn't the heavy-handed black inking of the secret policeman; it's the self-censorship we impose on ourselves when we're afraid that if we say what we think everyone around us will think us strange.

Language does control how you think, and if you don't have a word for it, you won't think of it.

Compare this to any mess written by Charlie Kaufman.

It's weird to be a human. We get to think about things, we get to wonder. It seems like quite a privileged position in the universe. And I wouldn't give it up for certainty because when you're certain you stop being curious. And here's the one thing I know about the thing you're certain about; you're wrong.

A stupid man is a very dangerous man, she thought.

In practice, we work with the complex of physical sensation and thought that is "I feel hurt." If we totally experience the sensations and thought, then the "feeling hurt" evaporates. I never would say that we shouldn't feel what we feel.

Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun! Men may die of imaginacioun, So depe may impressioun be take.

I looked around the room trying to think of a situation that could be any worse than this, and decided that the only thing that could be worse than prison was the navy.

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

That we may accept a limitation on our actions but never, under no circumstances, must we accept restriction on our thinking.