Quotes About Thought

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'

The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to developing whole new pathways in the cerebral evolution of our species.

I don't believe I'm psychic, but if I can get people to focus on a specific thought, I can hack into brains and figure out what they're thinking.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.

I look at a basketball laying on the ground, and it makes me think of something. Popcorn ball. How 'bout a spicy popcorn ball? That is how my mind is always working.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

Pre-meditation can form in split seconds.

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.

The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.