Quotes About Thought

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear.

Imagination is the door to inspiration and the basis of all thought.

If [you think] thought cannot be manufactured, stop eating for twenty days and see how you feel. Begin today and count. ... Even thought is manufactured by food. There is no doubt about it.

The Hindus have discovered that the absolute can only be realised, or thought of, or stated, through the relative, and the images, crosses, and crescents are simply so many symbols — so many pegs to hang the spiritual ideas on. It is not that this help is necessary for every one, but those that do not need it have no right to say that it is wrong. Nor is it compulsory in Hinduism.

To remain monolingual reduces the mind to the confines of a tramline.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.

Ninety percent of what we believe has nothing to do with the process of thought, but comes instead from the four sources of family inheritance, individual temperament, national culture, and economic self-interest; and while we cannot wholly cast off these shackles, we should at least recognize their cramping and distorting influence upon the free process of thought.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

But then, what is belief? A thought lodges in the mind, will not out, preserves its freshness and colour and flexibility like the corpse of a saint: is this belief, or is it heresy?

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it.

A question is not just there to be answered. It is also there to answer.

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.

The greatest affirmation in Judaism is the statement, Shema Yisrael Adonai Elohienu, Adonai Echad—Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is One! Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, chief rabbi of Palestine from 1920 until his death in 1935, wrote that this sentence contains the most powerful thought a person can think. If

a truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

The idea bent my brain.

Vicky always did have that kind of mind: since there was basically no activity going on inside her head, conversations went in there and came back out virtually untouched.

I wish I could show you how an interrogation can have its own beauty, shining and cruel as that of a bullfight; how in defiance of the crudest topic or the most moronic suspect it keeps inviolate its own taut, honed grace, its own irresistible and blood-stirring rhythms; how the great pairs of detectives know each other's every thought as surely as lifelong ballet partners