Quotes about Thought
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously, so that if it be steeped in curiosity as to science it has no room for merely personal considerations.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .
— Arthur Conan Doyle
But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Hail divinest Melancholy.
— John Milton
What if earth be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein each to other like, more than on earth is thought?
— John Milton
Reason also is choice.
— John Milton
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
— John Milton
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.
— John Milton
Thus the Lord, by pain, sickness, and disappointments, by breaking our cisterns and withering our gourds—weakens our attachment to this world, and makes the thought of leaving it, more easy and more desirable.
— John Newton
On the other hand, emotion without truth produces empty frenzy and cultivates shallow people who refuse the discipline of rigorous thought.
— John Piper
The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).
— John Piper