1,572 Quotes About Thought

and with each thought, she typed out a storymuch like a drumbeat starting up a tune

A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.

Thinking is a sign of disturbance. When your bladder doesn't hurt you don't think about it.

Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.

The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon.

…the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.