Thought Quotes

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...

Don't keep forever on the public road,going only where others have gone, and following one after the...

True wit is nature to advantage dressed;What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

Remembrance and reflection how allied!What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized mod...

What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear....

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, mak...

Life's more amusing than we thought.

We are in front of a fountain, whose jet she seems to be watching. 'Those are your thoughts and mine...

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you ...

The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wis...

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when ...

A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something rela...

They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say t...

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them ...

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

An anchorite’s hermitage is called an anchor-hold; some anchor-holds were simple sheds clamped to th...

A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Realit...

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come ...

But the character of a man is not to be judged from the pictures which he may draw or from the antic...

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that o...

The brain is not nourished on beans and truffles but rather the food manages to reconstitute the mol...

Common sense is not a single unique conception, identical in time and space. It is the "folklore" of...

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to ...

Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

I did find some time to go to a record store and check out 'Headstrong' actually in the racks. It wa...

When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing th...

I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, t...

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

What you think is an illusion created by your glands your emotions and in the last analysis by th...

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Thought—he told himself quietly—is a weapon one uses in order to act. No action was possible. Though...

He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who tea...

Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is t...

The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaki...

The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day w...

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists po...

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the ...

I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of brea...

Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of ...

I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same ...

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need...

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liber...

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the...

One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more...

The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing...

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is...

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Th...

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought...

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in ...

I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I...

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teache...

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating the mind is like a car battery - it recharges b...

There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been i...

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of...

The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.

Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a...

Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. A...

The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of tha...

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You neve...

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. Bu...

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. I...

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I've always thought it isn't tha...

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl...

People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions abo...

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ...

Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. ...

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thought...

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No...

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis...

Why do I make room in my mind for such filth and nonsense? Do I hope that if feeling disguises itsel...

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate fou...

To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look...

The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable...

When my husband turned 40, I was obsessed. 'Has he had his medical checkup?' He needed to go to the ...

Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and...

I dislike interaction. The less I say the better I feel. I was naturally a loner. I didn’t want conv...

I dislike interaction. The less I say the better I feel. I was naturally a loner. I didn’t want conv...

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, id...

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from th...

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre...

We think too much and feel too little.

Besides, I seemed to hold two lives—the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the form...

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a w...