Quotes About Thought

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

Whenever people are particularly muddled in their thinking they invent big words to cover their confusion.

But he did not think....thoughts formed in him and dissolved without control, almost like a reverie. And since he had got through life in that fashion, he did not know that it is possible to think better, more accurately, more clearly.

To borrow Julia Creet's phrase, maybe "memory is where we have arrived rather than where we have left." ... I used to think I was a transcriber of my own experiences and memories, adding an image here and there, but now I think I am more of a shaper. I take small fragments of image, memory, silence, and thought, and shape them with imagninary hands into something different.

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.

Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God! but the interest!

The moment you think of a joke is the best moment.

I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard

I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, "What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.

The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

Jane--it's history, all this. I say that I have always thought history to be of great relevance.