Quotes about Thought
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.
— Stephen Jay Gould
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
— GK Chesterton
Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.
— Ayn Rand
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.
— Aristotle
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.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
— Joseph Heller
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.
— Liz Curtis Higgs
Universes fashioned by words and concepts that work together to provide a more or less coherent frame of reference for all thought and action.
— James Sire
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
— Edith Wharton
It seems so to me, said his wife, as if she were producing a new thought.
— Edith Wharton