1,572 Quotes About Thought

space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that it can come upon something totally new.

There's nothing more debauched than thinking.This sort of wantonness runs wild like a wind-borne weedon a plot laid out for daisies.Nothing's sacred for those who think.Calling things brazenly by name,risque analyses, salacious syntheses,frenzied, rakish chases after the bare facts,the filthy fingering of touchy subjects,discussion in heat--it's music to their ears.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

What If Life Is A Cage,And Freedom Is Death?

A society that begins by banning words will end by banning books, and ideas themselves.

Our whole education system is calculated to produce *feelings* in us, impart them to us, instead of leaving their production to ourselves however they may turn out...Thus stuffed with imparted feelings, we appear before the bar of majority and are 'pronounced of age." Our equipment consists of "elevating feelings, lofty thoughts, inspiring maxims,eternal principles.

She tried to think about what lay ahead, but soon gave up. 'Words turn into stone,' Nimit had told her. She settled deep into her seat and closed her eyes. All at once the image came to her of the sky she had seen while swimming on her back. And Erroll Garner's 'I'll Remember April.' Let me sleep, she thought. Just let me sleep. And wait for the dream to come.

The only thing that prevents us from being happy is thinking.

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