Quotes about Thought

When People talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists: but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Her pure, and eloquent bloodSpoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,That one might almost say, her body thought.

Thought is the seed of action.

Health is not a condition of matter but of Mind.

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.