Quotes About Thought

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.

One of the basic tenets of all metaphysical systems of thought is that we create our own reality in accord with our beliefs.

Memory is a funny thing sometimes.

That was the problem with memory, the process of focusing on one thing necessarily required the exclusion of something else and sometimes the something else was the most important part.

Algunas veces piensas una cosa pero tardas algo más en sentirla.

They are solid, real. I am an object, useful but hollow. The absence of thought fills me up.

My most salient memories

Deep reading is always about *connection*: connecting what we know to what we read, what we read to what we feel, what we feel to what we think, and how we think to how we live out our lives in a connected world.

When language and thought atrophy, when complexity wanes and everything becomes more and more the same, we run great risks in society politic-- whether from extremists in a religion or a political organization or, less obviously, from advertisers.

When we reflect that "sentence"10 means, literally, "a way of thinking" . . . we realize that . . . a sentence is both the opportunity and the limit of thought—what we have to think with, and what we have to think in. It is, moreover, a feelable thought. . . . It is a pattern of felt sense. —Wendell Berry

Busy hands and idle minds have knitted many a sweater; Busy minds and idle hands have knitted many a brow.

In a future time when most human thought has been accelerated by artificial intelligence and external memory can be shared on a universal matrix... GITS 2

The energy of our every thought, action, or word, once it has been projected, lasts eternally without disappearing.

For Christians, the term "faith" designates not a formal assent to a belief, but rather an act of trust and commitment to a way of envisioning our world, and exploring its implications for thought and action.

Your mind is more creative than any machine.

By thinking of the cloud, I thirsted for the raindrop.

Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.

What sometimes feels like a trap is actually just a trick of the mind.

Feeling. That is what it is about. People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential.

Now, these were wounds I could have healed with a single thought. Just to feel pain, sometimes, was enough to cancel it.

That is what the taste of blood does. It takes away the gap between thought and action.To think is to do. There is no unlived life inside you as the air speeds past your body, as you look down at the dreary villages and market towns...

And have you never walked into a room and wondered what you came in for? Have you never forgotten what you just did? Have you never blanked out or misremembered what you were just doing?

and could occasionally be arrogant in his opinions on art and film and music, but there was nothing overtly wrong with him. Well – now that she thought about it – he'd never been supportive of her music career