Quotes About Thought

By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought.

The quality of your being expresses the correctness of your understanding. Think

Be not a slave of words.

Were we to characterize this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it… above all others, the Mechanical Age…. The same habit regulates not our modes of action alone, but our modes of thought and feeling. Men are grown mechanical in head and in heart, as well as in hand.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Una vez despertado el pensamiento no vuelve a dormitar.

Thought will not work except in silence.

And when I was told insultingly to cease 'my girlish tears,' that word 'girlish' had no sting for me, except as a verbal echo to the one eternal thought of my heart - that a girl was the sweetest thing I, in my short life, had known - that a girl it was who had crowned the earth with beauty, and had opened to my thirst fountains of pure celestial love, from which, in this world, I was to drink no more.

We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

In a social context, digital technology introduces you to neighbours of the mind - people who are separated by distance, but close to you in thought and interest.

Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.

When I first created the world of 'Mr. Robot,' I thought it would be a niche television series with a small, cult following.

I like the Albino Rhino. That was kind of cool. Of all the other nicknames people give out, I thought it was really unique.

It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.

I have no problem with any question.

Head & Shoulders (a repulsive name for a shampoo, when you think of it, but you never do)

I had a break from 8:26 to 9:13. I sat and breathed and thought of the way some people walk dogs. Some yank the leash to make the dog heel, and some let the dog smell the smells.

One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.

It was the absences that had made her think, not the presences.

Any desire for a family of your own yet? I would rather eat one of Barney's dirty diapers, he thought. Not yet, he said.

In fact, after living in Communist China for so many years, I realized that one of the advantages enjoyed by a democratic government that allows freedom of speech is that the government knows exactly who supports it and who is against it, while a totalitarian government knows nothing of what the people really think.