329 quotes found
“All thought is a feat of association having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.”
“The extra calories needed for one hour of intense mental effort would be completely met by eating one oyster cracker or one half of a salted peanut.”
“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.”
“Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.”
“We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own but they probably are.”
“Thinking is like loving and dying - each of us must do it for himself.”
“A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.”
“It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.”
“Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings and speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
“And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?”
“The real offence as she ultimately perceived was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.”
“To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous.”
“The thoughts that come often unsought and as it were drop into the mind are commonly the most valuable of any we have.”
“We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity the intolerable labour of thought.”
“Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.”
“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”
“What was once thought can never be unthought.”
“Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.”
“Man is a slow sloppy and brilliant thinker the machine is fast accurate and stupid.”
“Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.”
