Quotes About Thought

The reason for thinking that there will be no 'last' philosophy is simply that no answer can fail to be an answer to a question, and no question can guarantee its own permanent relevance.

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

I cut off my head and threw it in the sky. It turned into birds. I called it thinking.

It's hard to talk about what you believe while you are believing it. Fervor reduces thought to shorthand and all we get is an icon.

The body swerves in the service of the mind, which is evidence of the mind but not actual proof.

Yes, bottle up your negative emotions in a neurotically unhealthy way. For my sake. Just off and on until spring. Your springtime emotions I like a lot." I took a long swig of beer. "I don't know, Timothy. I have to tell you, this is a bolt out of the blue. Your proposition is not something I ever dreamed I'd be faced with when we began sharing hearth and home and Vaseline jar. I'm going to have to give this one a lot of thought.

Mother of God!" "That was my thought, or the Presbyterian equivalent thereof.

Until I met Timmy I'd always thought coffee was a mineral that occurred in nature as tiny crystals and was mined like coal.

our essential process for making a decision still relies on emotion.

He took each fact as it came and let it slip painlessly into the back of his mind, thinking, Okay, okay, I'll think about that one later; and that one; and that one; so that the alert, front part of his mind could remain free enough to keep him in command of the situation.

Parlando, la signora Givings contempló, distratta e affascinata insieme, la semitrasparenza cremisi che il sole morente metteva nel lobo dell'orecchio del marito, trasformando la sua forfora in fuochi infuocati, ma col pensiero stava già pregustando la serata.

What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?" "Sleep with it," he suggested. "Think of me.

It was the most convulted, ridiculous piece of logic I'd heard in awhile... It was something I would have come up with.

And here I thought you had a soft spot for reckless young girls.

Tradition or not, I sometimes thought putting children on an old guy's lap was already creepy enough. We didn't need to mix alcohol into it.

You're on a roll here, aren't you? Never thought I'd have a heckler while pouring out my heart and soul.

He had a nice laugh, rich and almost melodious. It made me think of warm caramel, dripping from a spoon.

Oh my God, I thought. I'm rooming with the sydney Sage of re-education.

You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked. 'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again.

He found himself, almost immediately, up against the old truth that a machine, however ingenious, is incapable of original thought. It can handle no problems except those that resolve themselves into mathematical terms—problems that contain one, and only one, correct answer.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

This school is based on the idea that a man who can think correctly will automatically behave morally—or

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

The unconscious is a marvelous universe of unseen energies, forces, forms of intelligence—even distinct personalities—that live within us. It is a much larger realm than most of us realize, one that has a complete life of its own running parallel to the ordinary life we live day to day. The unconscious is the secret source of much of our thought, feeling, and behavior. It influences us in ways that are all the more powerful because unsuspected.