Quotes About Thought

It's hard to replace the gray matter that is inherent in every human being. No computer can do it quite that well yet.

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.

The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.

Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought and not as many of those who worry about their shortcomings believe an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.

Maybe you should call him,' Simon suggested, trying not to think too hard about how weird it was to be giving a demon hunter advice about possibly dating a warlock.

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

Anonymous inanely stupid letter,' he said. 'Who has ever sent me an anonymous letter? Who capable of rational thought sends anyone an anonymous letter?

In human society, thinking's the greatest transgression of all.

The greatest danger to both society and the individual, we learn from Socrates, is the suspension of critical thought. Loved

success can lead to acclaim that can undermine the habits of mind that produced the success.

He was a trifle embarrassed to be deserting his hard-won realism in order to follow what he thought was the dominant philosophical fashion.

But seeing those words that were first written, and scratched out, and rewritten again in print and bound into a book, I know that I love the process of writing and publishing. To take a thought and work on it, to render it into the clearest form possible, and then to send it out into the world—this is work so precious and so joyful that I am not surprised that men have kept it to themselves.

At the thought of her death I felt a confusing pang of genuine distress mixed with elation

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.

A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and returning along the course of its own sweet river music; while the semicolon brings clauses and thoughts together with all the silent discretion of a hostess arranging guests around her dinner table.