Thought Quotes

ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.A striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself, whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Heresy is the eternal dawn, the morning star, the glittering herald of the day. Heresy is the last and best thought. It is the perpetual New World, the unknown sea, toward which the brave all sail. It is the eternal horizon of progress.Heresy extends the hospitalities of the brain to a new thought.Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy, a coffin.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.

~ Raymond Chandler

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

~ Jonah Lehrer

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.

~ Stanley Kubrick

Fuck rational thought

~ George Carlin

Why didn’t you dare it before? he asked harshly.When I hadn’t a job? When I was starving? When I was just as I am now, as a man, as an artist, the same Martin Eden? That’s the question. I’ve been asking myself for many a day. My brain is the same old brain. And what is puzzling me is why they want me now. Surely they don’t want me for myself, for myself the same olf self they did not want. They must want me for something else, for something that is outside of me, for something that is not I. Shall I tell you what that something is? It is for the recognition I have recieved. That recognition is not I. Then again for the money I have earned and am earnin. But money is not I. And is it for the recognition and money, that you now want me?

~ Jack London

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

~ Fay Weldon

Boring is the right thought at the wrong time.

~ Jack Gardner

We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought.

~ Ann Brashares

I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource.

~ John Keats

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.

~ George S. Clason

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.

~ Richard Mitchell

Indeed it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. There are moments when his cogitations are relatively more respectable than usual, but even at their climaxes they never reach anything properly describable as the level of serious thought. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought. That is to say, they never think anything that has not been thought before and by thousands.

~ H.l. Mencken

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.

~ Steven Pinker

To want to tackle everything rationally is irrational.

~ Ilyas Kassam

take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool...

~ Jonathan Swift

The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.

~ Brad Warner

It felt so amazing to be alive I could never think of anything else.

~ Marty Rubin

Even dead fallen leaves go a long way with the wind before getting crushed.

~ Basith

Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is exerting a certain amount of power for good or harm. Every woman, by her virtue or her vice, by her folly or her wisdom, by her levity or her dignity, is adding something to our national elevation or degradation. A community is not likely to be overthrown where woman fulfills her mission, for by the power of her noble heart over the hearts of others, she will raise that community from its ruins and restore it again to prosperity and joy.

~ John Angell James

I'd say we're all just ghosts on a wire seeking the prick of an electric thought.

~ Robert Fanney

The same thought resonates.

~ Toba Beta

The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there’s a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under.

~ C.s. Lewis

We are treasure chests with more jewels inside than we can imagine.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.

~ Beryl Markham

Towel and talk, how similar are they, both wipes dry water. One on the hate and latter in the head.

~ Aphole

In that one stolen second, I considered the Glebe girl. She entered my mind like a burglar, them vanished again, taking nothing. It was like the humiliation of the past had been dragged instantly from my back and left somewhere on the ground.

~ Markus Zusak

If someone gets irritated with your presence, then move out. You have no space there.

~ Saga Valsalan

Thinking! Thinking! The process should no longer be merely this feeble flurry of hailstones that raises a little dust. It should be something quite different. Thinking should be a terrifying process. When the earth thinks, whole towns crumble to the ground and thousands of people die.Thinking: raising boulders, hollowing out valleys, preparing tidal waves at sea. Thinking like a town: that's to say: eight million inhabitants, twelve million rats, nine million pints of carbon dioxide, two billion tons. Grey light. Cathedral of light. Din. Sudden flashes. Low-lying blanket of black cloud. Flat roofs. Fire alarms. Elevators. Streets. Eighteen thousand miles of streets. 145 million electric light bulbs.

~ Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio

His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At such intersections we always encounter what we have already seen.

~ Raymond Queneau

Milk for infant as liquor for adult.

~ Toba Beta

Every leaf before it falls must think itself immortal.

~ Marty Rubin

Fire burns through thought.

~ Marty Rubin

Why, human thought is a real element, a real force, darting out like electricity from every man's or woman's mind, injuring or relieving, killing or curing, building fortunes or tearing them down, working for good or ill, every moment, night or day, asleep or awake, carving, moulding and shaping people's faces and making them ugly or agreeable.

~ Prentice Mulford

These mods made significant improvements to the cars – enough so that I changed my mind (another procedure altogether) every time I thought of selling the damn thing and buying a Toyota. I hope you benefit from this and preserve your ailing finances!Good luck!

~ Christina Engela

Monsieur Beulier never engaged in thought except to speak the truth, and never spoke except to express his thought.

~ Marcel Proust

Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.

~ Blaise Pascal

When you enjoy a thought or activity, it's irrelevant whether it's meaningful or not.

~ Marty Rubin