Thought Quotes

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Think and then think what you have thought. Is it really what you had thought. Think again.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

It could be disastrous to speak your mind while you are deep in thought.

Perfection can be a fetish

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.

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

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

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

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Creative thought must always contain a random component.

However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.

The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

I can't really articulate what I feel.

Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.

Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.

I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easier than I thought.

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking.

Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought.

Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster.

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.