Quotes About Thought

I always thought 'Of Mice and Men' was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really clever and moving and complicated, but everybody understands the complication.

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.

Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain.

I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought - the freedom to explore and move in unexpected ways.

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

In the space age the most important space is between the ears.

To achieve, you need thought

Do not be afraid of undertaking too much of what you can do without coming and going; but fear only the thought of doing more than you are doing and more than God is giving you the means to do.

Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.

The folly and wisdom of men starts when they stop thinking and start acting.

It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.

Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought.

Verily it is a foolish thought that they both have devised, for the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea also had its place to bear its floods.

It is not enough to be a man... you have to become an idea... a terrible thought... a wraith- indeed- Become one with the darkness.

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

Thinking Breeds Inventions and Innovations.

Indoctrination is dangerous.

The unceasing flow of thought in all its various forms is an inescapable and defining aspect of the human condition.

Your thinking has the potentiality to make you a kid or a king, in it lies your enthronement or dethronement.

When you think it's there it will be there. When you think it's not there still it will be there.It is like a mirror which needs another mirror to see it. It is mind.

The mind speaks, thought it does not have lips. The heart moves, though it does not have feet. The soul rises, though it does not have wings.