1,572 Quotes About Thought

The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.

A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

If your thoughts are as tall as the height of your ceiling, you can’t fly above your room.

We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.

We have become a nation of thoughtless rushers, intent on doing before thinking, and hoping what we do magically works out. If it doesn’t, we rush to do something else, something also not well thought-out, and then hope for more magic.

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

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