Quotes About Thought

His nose, Joe thought; it looks like the rubber bulb of a New Delhi taxi horn, soft and squeezable. And loud. The loudest noise, he thought, that I have ever seen.

The danger from the imaginative mind cannot be overestimated.

Men of thought, Anita said. Not men of action. It's begun to have a paralyzing effect.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...

We need to imagine as well as measure.

Malcolm stared back calmly, though he felt anything but calm: if that monkey had a name, it might be Malice, he thought.

I'm with the fool in the psalm. You thought we could get on without you; no – you didn't care whether we got on without you or not. You just got up and left. So that's what we're doing, we're getting on.

Its purpose was to defend democracy in this country, first of all. Then to defend the principles of freedom of thought and expression.

Another crack, and this time the bullet went deep somewhere inside, seeking out the centre of his life. He thought: it won't find it there. Hester's my centre.

By the light of a candle, he composed a letter, saying everything as briefly as possible:

Anything that was associated with human workmanship and human thought was surrounded by Shadows.…

Había pensado acaso que la vida carecía de significado y de propósito por haber desaparecido Dios? Sí, lo había pensado. - ¡Pero el presente existe! Mary Malone

She thought thought that without noticing that she'd thought it, and she soon forgot it, and only remembered it much later.

It was one of those moments when we suddenly recall a dream that we've unaccountably forgotten, and back in a flood comes all the emotion we felt in our sleep

nothing. "I can't bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel," she continued. "Sooner anything than that. I used to think pain would be worse—to be tortured forever—I thought that must be worse Ã¢â'¬Â¦ But as long as you were conscious, it would be better, wouldn't it? Better than feeling nothing, just going into the dark, everything going out forever and ever?

I can't bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel, she continued. Sooner anything than that. I used to think pain would be worse – to be tortured for ever – I thought that must be worse... But as long as you were conscious, it would be better, wouldn't it? Better than feeling nothing, just going into the dark, everything going out for ever and ever?

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you're to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

To be alive, to him, is to be made of memory—to him if a man's not made of memory, he's made of nothing.

As for God, it was easy to think kindly of Him in a paradise like Indian Hill. It was something else in Newark—or Europe or the Pacific—in the summer of 1944.

Tanta istruzione, e non serve a nulla. Nulla può isolare dal più infimo livello del pensiero.

Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.

Según los Vedas, la sede del pensamiento, las acciones y los deseos no es la mente, sino el corazón humano.

I can type very fast, sometimes even faster than I can think of what to type.