Quotes about Thought

I recognised uneasily the hand of what I sometimes thought to be my personal nemesis, the spirit of farce.

Everyone knows what attention is. It is taking possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seems several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence. It implies a withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others.

Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.