Quotes about Thought

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

Thought is crude, matter unimaginably subtle.

You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons — that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.