Quotes About Thought

Lizzy, Will thought. Lizzy P. 'You n me gonna be buddies, darlin'. He stretched one hand to Elly's hair, and circled Donald Wade's rump with his free arm and touched Thomas's leg, on the far side of Elly. And he smiled at Lizzy P. and thought, Heaven's got nothin' on being the husband of Eleanor Dinsmore.

Think long thoughts in short sentences.

En cualquier caso, Kuhn insistió en que «la decisión de rechazar un paradigma es siempre simultánea a la decisión de aceptar otro, y el pensamiento o juicio que conduce a esa decisión implica la comparación de ambos paradigmas con el mundo circundante y entre ellos».

Don't you see that the whole aim of newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? —George Orwell,

Sometimes fear does the work of reason.

Maybe it's an insanity test, Haggis thought—if you believe it, you're automatically kicked out. He considered that possibility. But when he read it again, he decided, "This is madness.

A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.

The words came fast and slow, because the act of writing plunged me so wantonly down slippery avenues of thought that frequently I found myself not writing at all, my mouth open on a half-formed word with which my hand had been unable to keep pace and from which my mind had careened many seconds or whole minutes earlier like a horse having thrown its rider.

Emotions are the lowest form of consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, narrowing, dangerous form of behavior.

It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

My Soul lives many lives. Each life a thought, each thought a life. I am but Thought.

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.

Home is in here [tapping temple]. Where you live is just a geographical preference.

I thought maybe if I stared hard enough, I could see the lights of the city I had left so very far behind. This was nonsense, of course, but there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.

Some of the simplest things in like are the most difficult to imagine.

Aunt Josephine had been so careful to avoid anything that she thought might harm her, but harm had still come her way.

Some of the simplest things in life are the most difficult to imagine.

It was a mystery, like what the S stood for in Theodora's name. I kept walking, with nothing but solitude for company. "Solitude" is a fancy name for being all by yourself. It's not a bad name, I thought.

it is almost as if enormous philosophical questions are not designed to be answered at all, but just to make you think

I looked out the window at the dark and racing scenery and I thought of the city, where the train would eventually arrive. I hadn't seen the city since my apprenticeship began, and for a moment I felt so homesick I had to stop and lean my head against the glass. Dear Kit, I thought. And then I said it out loud. "I wish you were here.

She was only a child and I suppose such corny little manifestations of endearment were what she thought appropriate to her role as a femme fatale.

Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.

I was not born in a vacuum. Every thought I have belongs to someone else.