Thought Quotes

No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance afte...

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affiniti...

When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad.

What you powerfully holdIn your thought-worldWill make you eitherA street beggarOr a great king.

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience a...

Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthu...

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global...

Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which w...

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American...

I looked at what he built, and to me it explained the stars.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't ...

When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate ...

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and worki...

Sometimes it is not easy to find any words that properly convey a thought. When we hear or read, we ...

Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscore...

I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies...

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination I'm very grateful for that. I like that what ...

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run fiv...

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only tho...

My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter....

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Amazin'.' he said again. 'He just looks as though he's thinking, right?''Er...yes.''But he's not act...

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question...

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

The afternoon had passed to a ghostly gray. She was struck by the immensity of things, so much water...

When I was really young, I loved the movie 'White Christmas' - I still do - and I thought Rosemary C...

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedia...

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it le...

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he w...

To the Bullock RoserootWhat's the thought you thinkall your life long?It must be a great one,a solem...

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way....

Make thought a whirlwind.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invis...

Thought is the labour of the intellect reverie is its pleasure.

Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery i...

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible l...

A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasi...

If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympath...

Even the names of the books gave me food for thought.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Looked at again and again half consciously by a mind thinking of something else, any object mixes it...

We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and s...

Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mou...

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneat...

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objecti...

I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the as...

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a fin...

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable...

And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that...

You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.

I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to su...

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

The sovereign people determines life and death and happiness under conditions where experience and e...

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irri...

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by...

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer bra...

What has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life.' (Wittgenstein) This is the fact, the given, f...

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

One thought fills immensity.

I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been crit...

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has c...

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air abo...

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the plac...

… scientific thought does not mean thought about scientific subjects with long names. There are no s...

No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advan...

I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. S...

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind,...

I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Prof...

One of the difficulties of thinking clearly about anything is that it is almost impossible not to fo...

Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out . but thought is irksome and three minutes is...

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, th...

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid i...

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

Thought is yours only. Nobody can alter or influence the use you mean to make of it.

The core – and perhaps unexpected – thing that books do for us is simplify. It sounds odd, because w...

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the ps...

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image...

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of th...

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of th...

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable futur...

When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, ...

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real forc...

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a sce...