Quotes about Thought

All intellectual labor is inherently humorous

Before marriage she had completely mastered my imagination, for she was a secret to me; and I created the unknown thought before which I trembled as if it were hers.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

In this way, metaphorically speaking, a strong lens applied to Mrs. Cadwallader's match-making will show a play of minute causes producing what may be called thought and speech vortices to bring her the sort of food she needed.

Only those who know the supremacy of intellectual life - the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it - can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing, soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

It is not our body which feels, not our mind which thinks, but we, as single human beings, who both feel and think.

An angel can illume the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.

Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.

A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.