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Quotes About Thought

the most fundamental of all those freedoms is this: that persons must be free to read, write, say, and think what they will. Without that, all other freedoms are not merely meaningless, they are shams.
~ David Weber
He had thought on the train of sending his head to a laundry, it was true, but he had been drawn not so much to the idea of the laundered head as to that of the sleeping body. A very pleasant sleep, with head detached.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
I couldn't explain philosophy myself, and I doubt you could, either. Although it's ...' Her mother paused. 'I suppose it involves feeling something, and then using that feeling as a starting point for a train of thought. The feeling itself may be naïve, a lingering sense of wonder at something most people take for granted but you hold on to it, and think it through as far as you can. Does that sound right?
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Happy people have no reason to think. They live rather than question living.
~ Yi-Fu Tuan
An unlimited source of protection for man lies in his strong thought that, as a child of God, he cannot be affected by disease.
~ Yogananda
Thought is the primary energy and vibration that emanated from God and is thus the creator of life, electrons, atoms, and all forms of energy. Thought itself is the finest vibratory energy, the speediest power among all powers.
~ Unknown
Fantasy is reason's sweetheart.
~ Unknown
When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.
~ Zadie Smith
My evidence—such as it is—is almost always intimate. I feel this—do you? I'm struck by this thought—are you?
~ Zadie Smith
She was that age. Whatever she said burst like genius into centuries of silence. Whatever she touched was the first stroke of its kind. Whatever she believed was not formed by faith but carved from certainty. Whatever she thought was the first time such a thought had ever been thunk.
~ Zadie Smith
He had not seen her since that afternoon. And with the miracle that is male compartmentalization he had barely thought of her either.
~ Zadie Smith
That you should save me—be so good and kind—want to make me happy—why, it's beyond belief. No wonder I'm wretched at the thought of your leaving me. But I'll be wretched and bitter no more. I promise you.
~ Zane Grey
Finally, she grew quiet. After that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage; Hours of this; a period of introspection; a space of retrospection; then a mixture of both. Out of this, an awful calm.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
see, it was nice. The fact that the thought
~ Zora Neale Hurston
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight.Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still gulf of formless feeling untouched by thought
~ Zora Neale Hurston
It gave me something to feel about.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Por alguns instantes, Liesel ficou calada. Era uma daquelas conversas que precisam que um tempo se escoe entre um dito e outro.
~ Unknown
An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.
~ John Lithgow
Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
~ Naomi Watts
I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back.
~ Elmore Leonard
I would never give anybody any advice about anything.
~ Clive Owen
It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
Prince and I happen to think alike.
~ Vanity