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Quotes About Thought

I always like when you start to use something with a little less reverence. You start to use it a little carelessly, and with a little less thought, because then, I think, you're using it very naturally.
~ Jonathan Ive
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
~ George Santayana
Fasten your mental seatbelt and prepare to expand the boundaries of whatever you have thought about the universe and how it came into being.
~ Chris Prentiss
On reflection,' Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, 'this wasn't one of your better plans.
~ Chris Wooding
Jorum had called to the boys to come watch the miracle of birth. The "miracle of birth" was actually pretty disgusting, Arthas thought. He
~ Christie Golden
Many Jedi would raise eyebrows at the thought of meditating in a bar, but Vos had done it before.
~ Christie Golden
Air - the element of clarity of thought, of inspiration, insight, and fresh starts. He smiled a little, and as the scene began to fade, he let it go easily. Because he knew that with Air, there would always be something new to come, to challenge and inspire him.
~ Christie Golden
The "miracle of birth" was actually pretty disgusting, Arthas thought. He hadn't realized there'd be so much…goo involved.
~ Christie Golden
Because you think you've changed your lifestyle. You haven't, you know. In a day or two there will be a killing in this city and you will be on the hunt without a backward glance, without a single thought for me, just as you did before." Gabriel smiled at her, his teeth very white. "I will have no choice but to hunt the vampire, but I will not only look back, I will come back.
~ Christine Feehan
He could do that. Make her forget, even if it was just for a few seconds. She couldn't stop the slow nod of assent. Relief swept through her and she put her head back against the seat and closed her eyes. She didn't have to think anymore.
~ Christine Feehan
I know of your fears, ma petite . I know your every thought. The bond between us is strong enough to cross oceans. We can deal with your fears together. -Gregori
~ Christine Feehan
He liked that she gave the questions thought. That she actually saw the mysteries and worked at solving them.
~ Christine Feehan
Your lifemate is either not born or"— she smirked at him mischievously—" she's probably one of Gregori's daughters." He groaned and slapped his forehead with his palm. "A curse on you forever for uttering those words, for putting that thought out into the universe. Don't even think that, let alone say it aloud. Can you imagine Gregori Daratrazanoff as a father-in-law? Sheesh, Skyler, you really do want me dead.
~ Christine Feehan
Gregori turned the full power of his magnetic silver eyes on her. "I can make the earth shake beneath your feet and bring lightning from the sky to do my bidding. I can close off your airway with a thought. I am all things from a mouse to a wolf running free. Is this not enough for you to believe?" he inquired softly.
~ Christine Feehan
Many conservative Protestant interpreters, though uncomfortable to find themselves slumbering with Enlightenment and postmodernist bedfellows, will fail to discern or acknowledge the necessity of studying the fathers. The deep-seated Protestant suspicion of tradition and its confidence in the ability of renewed reason alone to understand Scripture will lead many to shy away from investing time and energy in exploring patristic thought
~ Christopher A. Hall
The schizophrenic position is one where a self's embedment in the solace of the quotidian is breached, and consciousness is confronted with both the complexities of thought processes and the raw materials of unconscious function.
~ Christopher Bollas
The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.
~ Christopher Hitchens
And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.
~ Christopher Hitchens
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.
~ Christopher Hitchens
he amended the thought to say that men were "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights," thus
~ Christopher Hitchens
The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I asked him if the thought of annihilation never gave him any uneasiness. He said not the least; no more than the thought that he had not been, as Lucretius observes.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Sigmund Freud estaba bastante en lo cierto cuando en El porvenir de una ilusión describía el impulso religioso como algo esencialmente imposible de erradicar hasta que la especie humana venza su miedo a la muerte y su tendencia al pensamiento
~ Christopher Hitchens
Semi-educated people join cults whose whole purpose is to dull the pain of thought, or take medications that claim to abolish anxiety.
~ Christopher Hitchens