Quotes About Thought

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.

Great minds sink alike, right?

I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Happiness can be thought, taught and caught... but not bought.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

The thought has cheered me, and I'd like to hang onto that. Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.