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Quotes About Thought

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!
~ Aleister Crowley, Moonchild
Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.
~ Ayn Rand
She gave him a strange maternal grin.For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon's mind: I am introuble here. This woman is not right.
~ Stephen King
I Think, Therefore I Am ... I Think ...
~ David Ski
Maybe knowledge is power, but it's damned hard to think a burglar to death.
~ Lois Greiman, Unzipped
I thought she wanted out. We should've brought cuffs and a gag." Clare frowned. "What's wrong with you, Blake? This is a rescue mission, not a kidnapping.
~ Jayde Scott, A Job From Hell
Dave put a lot of thought into picking out the books his dad would like least.
~ Theric Jepson, Byuck
Jason smiled and took a sip of his coke before responding. "I'm not sure how to reply to that. I thought about just giving you a nasty look. But I see you already have one.
~ Mark A. Cooper, Face-Off
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.
~ Oliver Sacks
We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.
~ Oliver Sacks
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
~ William Butler Yeats
The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.
~ Stephen King
Reason is nothing without imagination.
~ Rene Descartes
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.
~ Franklin P. Adams
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
~ Marcel Duchamp
How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.
~ Christian D. Larson
What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
~ Sylvia Plath
Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.
~ Alain Robbe-Grillet
Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.
~ Charles F. Haanel
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
~ Immanuel Kant
The mind contains all possibilities.
~ Gautama Buddha
What is thinkable is also possible.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein