Quotes About Thought

Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.

I just thought Spurs were a challenge that I had to take on.

We continued the hard work of integrating TWA, because at that time we still thought an efficient connecting hub in St. Louis could be a profitable addition to our network.

I've thought of the independents as a stable industry for a little over two decades, and that's because I stably worked in it, so I've understood it that way.

Since 2001, I've done what every elected official should be doing in government right now. My staff and I took a look at the books, thought outside the box and proposed reforms.

I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in.

In a way, I started 'Goon Squad' not even realizing I was writing a book. I thought I was just writing a few stories to stall before starting this other book that I wanted to write - or thought I wanted to write: I still haven't written it.

In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for.

The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

The key to every man is his thought.

Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.