Quotes About Thought

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.

Everything we can imagine becomes real.

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

It's just a figment of the imagination.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ of imagination.

I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.

I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.