Quotes About Thought

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

Most good thinking has its origin in fear.

Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.

When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.