Quotes about Thought

Any planning in a bottle is short, thought Stamp, but he knew from personal experience the pointlessness of telling a drinking man not to.

One of the most malevolent characteristics of racist thought is that it never produces new knowledge. It seems able to merely reformulate and refigure itself in multiple but static assertions

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us — and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.

The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

The mere thought of looking out the window at Mexico—which was now something else in my mind—was like recoiling from some gloriously riddled glittering treasure-box that you're afraid to look at because of your eyes, they bend inward, the riches and the treasures are too much to take all at once.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.