Quotes About Thought

Authentic atheism is as important to human intelligence as infinity is to imagination.

L'homme ne possède pas son intelligence, son intelligence est en visite chez lui.

Men disagree less because they think differently than because they do not think.

Genuine thought only discovers its principles at the end.

Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines. RUMI, from GRANITE AND WINEGLASS

Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said,And the words to say it flow with ease.

I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Feeling creates thought, men willingly agree; but they will not so willingly agree that thought creates feeling, though this is scarcely less true.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

Philosophy is not a spectator sport.

I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.

È il destino che gentilmente abbassa il predellino della sua antiquata carrozza e mi tende la mano per aiutarmi a salire, ma a pensarci, e a pensarci seriamente, si arrivava a uno sciocco calembour: il destino mi tende il piede, mi fa lo sgambetto per atterrarmi, per mettermi al tappeto... A volte mi dicevo persino: forse hai pensato troppo in tutta la tua vita. Gli altri non pensano e vivono felici.

You need hope to form a thought. It takes—I don't know—optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because, really, what's the point of all this communicating? What difference does it really make what we say to each other? Or what we do, for that matter?

Your mind has what you might call an automatic search function, which means that when you ask yourself a question, your mind automatically begins to search for an answer.

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Every time the brain is used, four components are triggered: motor movement, thought, sensation, and feeling. Under normal circumstances, we don't experience one without the other three.*

2. A brain cannot think without motor function. Wrote Feldenkrais, "My fundamental contention is that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality, that these entities are not related to each other in one fashion or another, but are an inseparable whole. To put this more clearly: I contend that a brain could not think without motor functions.

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Everything achieves reality insofar as it is conditioned by, or participates in, a pure idea.

The general culture itself, though without strong ideological passions or theoretical enthusiasms, is poor soil for cultivating a widespread understanding of science. It is, to use blunt words, a lazy, fatally unambitious culture, strongly resistant to demands for sustained and coherent thought on any topic (aside, perhaps, from sports, guns, and automobiles).