Quotes About Thought

The lid, however, wouldn't shut. The mind held back the whole sky.

Teddy laughed, heard the sound of it carry off on the sweep of night air and dissolve in the distant surf, as if it had never been, as if the island and the sea and the salt took what you thought you had and...

Why, then, do the Ten Commandments include a law that prohibits a thought? Because it is coveting that so often leads to evil. Or, to put it another way, coveting is what leads to violating the preceding four commandments—the ones against murder, adultery, stealing, and perjury.

The world's thinking is morally confused because it is informed by the morally confused.

My first coherent thought was, "It's raining. This must be Scotland.

Shades of Harry the deserter, I thought furiously. What in God's name is the British army coming to? Glorious traditions, my aunt Fanny.

Evidently, women are capable of experiencing rational thought and sexual arousal simultaneously, because I appeared to be doing precisely that.

A conclusion is simply the point at which you give up thinking. He gave up, and as he rose stiffly to his feet, found that a conclusion had indeed formed itself in his mind, much as a pearl forms inside an oyster.

war. And I thought that whether it was choice or no choice, it might be that it came to the same thing in the end. Jamie's hand still lay on mine. It tightened a little, and I glanced at him, but his eyes were still fixed somewhere past the dooryard; past the mountains, and the distant clouds. His grip tightened further, and I felt the edges of my ring press into my flesh. "When

I would have sworn on Brianna's head that Jamie didn't; hadn't, couldn't, under any circumstances whatever. At least I would have sworn that before tonight. I closed my eyes, chest heaving, and tried not to think of what I had seen. I couldn't, of course. And yet, the more I thought of it, the more impossible it seemed.

I now and then wished I could go mad"—he said thoughtfully "—it seemed a great deal easier than having always to think what to do next—but it doesna seem to come natural to me.

Fame just ain't a natural situation. But I shouldn't have worried because everyone thought I was a bit famous even before I'd done anything; people just assumed I was famous.

Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.

When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie.

Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.

There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.

The mind is the effect, not the cause.

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

I'm always changing my work, as there are endless ways to think about food.

I have never thought of my life as being an enigma.

I've got to start using my brain more - I've got to be more ethereal and more enlightened.

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

To me, having 'material' for an essay means not only having something to write about but also having something interesting and original to say about whatever that might be.