Quotes About Thought

Moriarty: . . .everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.

Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.

The Master said, "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." The Master said, "The study of strange doctrines is injurious indeed!"               The Master said, "Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;-this is knowledge.

Sorry, he apologized. I didn't mean to inflict my rantings on you, even though we are destined to spend the rest of our lives together. I don't suppose you fave any thought to where we should be married while I was in with that lot of fools, did you? Yes, she said. I decided we shouldn't, that wartime attachments are a bad idea. Particularly if you're going to be lassoing flying bombs.

is IN! But is thinking on the way out? Is man's reason becoming an endangered species?

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

the child would ask him questions about the world that for him was not even a memory. He thought hard how to answer. There is no past.

Moss was almost certainly dead. That left the police. Or some agent of the Matacumbe Petroleum Group. Who must think that he thought that they thought that he thought they were very dumb. He thought about that.

He couldn't remember where he was. The thought made him smile

I don't mean to upset you, but reflective men often find themselves at a certain remove from the realities of life.

If mathematical objects exist independently of human thought what else are they independent of? The universe, I suppose. When you solve a problem there is always the compelling sense that the solution was there and that you have discovered it.

In their images they had thought to find some small immortality but oblivion cannot be appeased.

If the world has a mind then it's all worse than we thought.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards." Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still. Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

But Dustfinger must be told what happens to him, she thought, he must. Then he'll understand why he really can't go back. And all the same, she thought next, he'll still be homesick. Homesick forever.

We will never have the wealth of experience our immortal creators have. Yet I find comfort in the thought that this limited lifespan gives our minds, at times, refreshing freedom.

Cogitatur depends on Est; and there's no avoiding it.

I'm not a Democrat because I haven't thought about the issues. I'm a Democrat because I have.

He would have to be as clever as a river, he thought, to do well. But he could twist and turn like water, and go his own way, however hard the world tried to drive him along another -- or, the thought he could do that.

While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. Cyril Connolly (English critic and editor, 1903-1974)

A curious latency stirred in her consciousness that was not yet an idea.