Quotes About Thought

Many fields have explored the nature of mental life—from psychology to philosophy, literature

The brain has one hundred billion neurons, each with an average of ten thousand connections to other neurons. The ways in which particular circuits in the brain are activated determines the nature of our mental activity, ranging from perceiving sights or sounds to more abstract thought and reasoning. When neurons fire together, they grow new connections between them. Over time, the connections that result from firing lead to "rewiring" in the brain.

System 1 continuously generates suggestions for System 2: impressions, intuitions, intentions, and feelings. If endorsed by System 2, impressions and intuitions turn into beliefs, and impulses turn into voluntary actions. When all goes smoothly, which is most of the time, System 2 adopts the suggestions of System 1 with little or no modification.

creativity is associative memory that works exceptionally well.

Not all illusions are visual. There are illusions of thought, which we call cognitive illusions.

To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.

I've known Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and they're two of the most independent people I've ever known in my life, and the thought we could somehow bend their views I find really beyond my capacity to believe.

It isn't only in the name of free speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerated - and I say itchy polemicist promoting thought, not itchy ideologue promoting violence - but because provocation is indispensable to the workings of a sound, creative culture.

The freedoms of religion, thought and speech are all fundamental rights Canadians not only enjoy, we have fought for them at home and abroad. We know that a vibrant democracy means that on some issues, Canadians will understandably have different views.

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.

The Villain wasn't necessarily something I sat down and thought, 'Oh this is going to be my character.' It's most like other great wrestling characters, where it's more of a reflection of my actual character.

I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

I used to think consciousness itself was a virtue, so I tried to keep it all in my head at the same time: past, future, etc.

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

The truth is, the less a subject had to do with the visible world, the more talented I was at solving problems.