Quotes About Thought

The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

We write to discover what we think.

As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. Until now there had been every urgent reason to obliterate any attention that might otherwise have been paid, banish the thought, bring fresh adrenaline to bear on the crisis of the day.

I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language

I write to know what I think.

Gandhi on Nonviolence, Louis Fischer's Life of Mahatma Gandhi, Jerome Frank's Breaking the Thought Barrier, Thoreau's On Civil Disobedience, Krishnamurti's The First and Last Freedom and Think on These Things, C. Wright Mills's The Power Elite, Huxley's Ends and Means, and Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media.

I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

I am not in the least an intellectual, which is not to say that when I hear the word intellectual I reach for my gun, but only to say that I do not think in abstracts.

She preferred keeping her mouth shut and appearing a fool to opening it and removing the doubt.

Yes, and the

To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.

But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to bleed; a vow didn't have to be whispered to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude

When I interviewed John McCain in 2000 about whether he had taken medication for his anger, I remember thinking, 'Let's see how this is going to work.'

Your birthday came and went. Here's the card I should have sent.

I think, therefore I don't care.

Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.

Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of exis