Quotes About Thought

GUIL And a syllogism: One, he has never known anything like it. Two, he has never known anything to write home about. Three, it is nothing to write home about. . . . Home . . . What's the first thing you remember? ROS Oh, let's see . . . The first thing that comes into my head, you mean? GUIL No—the first thing you remember. ROS Ah. (Pause.) No, it's no good, it's gone. It was a long time ago.

Racing at four and a half times the speed of any other conveyance, Tom Thumb was both a marvel and a mystery. The train's owners and occupants first questioned whether the human body could endure such speed. Many of the passengers on Tom Thumb's first run were human guinea pigs who brought along paper and pencil to test whether cogent thought was possible at such speed.47

The only way to change the order, she thought, was not to do something differently, but to do a different thing.

Algún día irás andando por el camino y oirás o verás algo. Con toda claridad. Y pensarás que eres tú la que está pensando. Una imagen pensada. Pero no. Es cuando tropiezas con un recuerdo que le pertenece a otro.

Any planning in a bottle is short, thought Stamp, but he knew from personal experience the pointlessness of telling a drinking man not to.

One of the most malevolent characteristics of racist thought is that it never produces new knowledge.

One of the most malevolent characteristics of racist thought is that it never produces new knowledge. It seems able to merely reformulate and refigure itself in multiple but static assertions

Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another—physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought.

Poems build our capacity for imaginative thinking, create a tolerance for ambiguity, and foster an appreciation for the role of the unknown in human life.

Elio Vittorini observed in 1957 that ever since Napoleon, France had proved impermeable to any foreign influence except German philosophy: and that was still true two decades later... By the time German philosophy had passed through Parisian social thought into English cultural criticism, its difficult vocabulary had achieved a level of expressive opacity that proved irresistible to a new generation of students.

Men can live without air a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for about two months — and without a new thought for years on end.

When I'm not working, it does. You turning Jack on?' 'God, what a revolting thought.

Ten Things about Judaism and the Marketplace of Ideas 1. Jewish thought can enrich the lives of people, whether or not the people are Jewish. 2. There are many access points to Jewish

Synagogue Leaders 1. If people are attracted to Judaism and want to convert to Judaism, are we willing to make conversion more accessible? If so, how would we do so? 2. How can we allow people who are attracted to Jewish ideas to engage our community institutions even if they don't want to convert to Judaism? 3. What program changes need to happen for our institutions to effectively share Jewish thought in the marketplace?

but then logic had never been my strong point.

Es heißt auch immer, dass der Verstand in Augenblicken höchster Gefahr am besten arbeitet und einem glasklare Einfälle schenkt. Aber das war bei mir ebenso wenig der Fall.

Hollywood is more of an idea than a place.

strong thought about a thing is always thought about its original nature;

The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.

a calm that would undo most anyone who thought noise worse than its opposite

Love and memory and thought and dream ~ My favorite poems have never been written in words.

I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away.

Marvellous apparatuses, like miracle cures, are beset with unpredictable side-effects. In the twentieth century, new means of setting down human thought may precipitate an avalanche of worthless digression.

I stared at Papa, hearing his words over in my mind: what if I were a spy. I didn't think for one moment that Papa was actually a spy, but the phrase awakened a sense of possibility in me.