Quotes About Thought

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

Some segments of this book may be rough going. That's the nature of real science. It requires thought. Sometimes deep thought. But thinking can be rewarding. You can just skip the rough parts, or you can struggle to understand.

I have the strange feeling that man created language but now it creates us.

Now is history as fast as the mind remembers.

Selbstverstaendlich tat ich es auch nicht.

Any writer, in whatever form, must first pass through the stage of being a reader. It is unimaginable that someone could become a writer without first being a reader. Only a daydreamer who had fallen into an unhealthy idealism could exoticize a writer in this way. Such misperception is similar to believing that thought is possible without language.

I thought that 'Twilight' would be a kind of girl movie, but it was cool.

In Nehruvian 'secularism', superficiality of thought is compensated for by thoroughness in dishonesty.

Shogo. I know I'm repeating myself, but I have to say it. If I were Keiko, this is what I'd say. Please Live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to music... Look at paintings at times to be moved. Laugh a lot, and at times, cry. And if you find a wonderful girl, then you go for her and love her.

A regénykönyvek már nem mulattatnak, mert magam szebbeket tudok elgondolni.

If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you that I hit Erik?" Stark asked me in a pleasant, nonchalant voice. "Wouldn't surprise me," Heath said.

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.

I wanted to find a field in which I could be sure my freedom of thought would not be limited

Why do human egos seem so threatened by the thought that other animals think and feel? Is it because acknowledging the mind of another makes it harder to abuse them?

The basic outline of the philosophy of the Buribunks: I think, therefore I am; I speak therefore I am; I write, therefore I am; I publish therefore I am.

Oh, dear, she thought, this is probably more democracy than an Englishman can stand.

At first he did not realize what he had accomplished; he thought that he had remained within the boundaries of mechanics, that he was computing actual numbers of molecules, without realizing how much probability was involved.

There are frontiers where we are learning, and our desire for knowledge burns. They are in the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, at the origins of the cosmos, in the nature of time, in the phenomenon of black holes, and in the workings of our own thought processes. Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world. And it's breathtaking.

Abstract thought can anticipate by centuries hypotheses that find a use—or confirmation—in scientific inquiry.

La capacidad de comprender antes de ver constituye el corazón del pensamiento científico.

When Einstein died, his greatest rival, Bohr, found for him words of moving admiration. When a few years later Bohr in turn died, someone took a photograph of the blackboard in his study. There's a drawing on it. A drawing of the "light-filled box" in Einstein's thought experiment. To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

One of my most deeply held assumptions about human life is that without freedom of thought humans cannot fully evolve.

Writing is like talking without anyone to interrupt you.

A person could explode if he had to think too much.