Quotes About Thought

Dianne was suddenly concerned. Two boys see the same event. One goes into shock. It's reasonable to believe the other would be affected. She hadn't thought of this. She leaned down next to him. "Mark, are you all right?" He knew he had her. "I think so," he said with a frown, as if a migraine were upon him.

A true development, then, may be described as one which is conservative of the course of antecedent developments being really those antecedents and something besides them: it is an addition which illustrates, not obscures, corroborates, not corrects, the body of thought from which it proceeds; and this is its characteristic as contrasted with a corruption.

Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,' said the sorrowful girl. 'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.

If Garp was going to play lacrosse, Jenny thought, where would he go? Not out, because it's dark; he'd lose the ball.

Imagining something is better than remembering something

If pride was a sin, thought Dr. Larch, the greatest sin was moral pride. He

Imaginer les choses vaut mieux que se les rappeler », avait écrit Garp.

that was exactly what I thought Owen Meany was, "brilliant but preposterous." As time went on—as you shall see—maybe not so preposterous.

WHY SHOULD SOMEONE WHO'S GOT SUCH A WORKED-OUT WAY OF SEEING THE WORLD BORE YOU? WHY SHOULDN'T YOU BE INTERESTED IN SOMEONE WHO'S WORKED OUT A WAY TO SEE THE WORLD? THAT'S WHAT MAKES WRITERS INTERESTING!

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity...

I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource.

Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs

There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, And a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, And a blush for just begun it.

And there shall be for thee all soft delight That shadowy thought can win

It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love. I didn't think that this was true, my seventeen years of experience had shown this to be much more false than true, but it was like every other thought and belief of Finny's: it should have been true.

In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the Devon School came into existence the day i entered it, was vibrantly real while I was a student there, and then blinked out like a candle the day I left.

My misery was too deep to speak any more. I scanned the page; I was having trouble breathing, as though the oxygen were leaving the room. Amid its devastation my mind flashed from thought to thought, despairingly in search of something left which it could rely on. Not rely on absolutely, that was obliterated as a possibility, just rely on a little,some solace, something surviving in the ruin.

tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought

So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?

You say you'll change the Constitution We all want to change your head You tell me 'it's the institution' You'd better free your mind instead.

It is so much easier to believe than to think; it is astounding how much more believing is done than thinking.

thought itself is best understood as planning; even higher forms of thought, such as philosophy, the epitome of disembodied speculation, proceed, they argue, by hijacking algorithms originally developed to help us plan movements.

feeling was an integral component of the machinery of reason.