Quotes About Thought

O TODO (...) pode ser considerado como uma mente vivente infinita e universal.

A materia não é mais que a força mental coagulada.

O Universo é Mental: ele está dentro da mente d'O TODO.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Studying the text with other people reduces the impact of sin on our thinking.

Nobody ever brought up the hairpiece, and Salenca thought it was the perfect crime.

Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

I'm not interested in entertainment.

I like clothes. And I think it's OK to think about clothes just so long as you also think about other things. I'm not interested in clothes to the point where they'll push other things out of my mind; I just see them as a way of expressing yourself, and a pleasure, really.

I'm not interested in telling people what to think. I'm interested in making people think.

I got a lot of notoriety early on. Much of my career I was just trying to prove I was as good as the world thought I was.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

You know, like, real paying attention and real observation and deep thought and deep consideration can be a bit, you know, miserable-making.

I was obsessed with fashion when I was young. I thought fashion meant fashion design, and I thought I wanted to be a designer at some point.

I can't live without Radio 4. It's worth the entire licence fee. I'm an obsessive listener; I get up, and Radio 4 goes on, but it goes off when 'Thought for the Day' starts, as that's a step too far.