Quotes About Thought

Get down,' Bunty says grimly. 'Mummy's thinking.' (Although what Mummy's actually doing is wondering what it would be like if her entire family was wiped out and she could start again.)

The mind is a fathomless mystery.

Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, all in her head? And so what if it was – wasn't everything in her head real too? What if there was no demonstrable reality? What if there was nothing beyond the mind?

He wanted to be deafened by the thunder of her engines, he needed to be drained of every thought by the cold, the noise, the equal amounts of boredom and adrenalin. He had believed once that he would be formed by the architecture of war, but now he realized, he had been erased by it.

Juliet sighed and wondered if one day she would think herself to death. Was that possible? And would it be painful?

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought."(Christian D. Larson)

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.

Man is a reasoning Animal.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.