Quotes about Thought

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

You see, most whites, even when they credit a Negro with some intelligence, will still feel that all he can talk about is the race issue; most whites never feel that Negroes can contribute anything to other areas of thought, and ideas. You just notice how rarely you will ever hear whites asking any Negroes what they think about the problem of world health, or the space race to land men on the moon.

My mind. What is it? What am I making of it? What am I using it for? Is it empty of thought? Isolated and torn loose from those around it? Melted into flesh and blended with it, so that it shares its urges?

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

Ill take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew it meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So thats how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before.

The pain gave me something definite to think about, something immediate. It was something to hold onto.

Some might call the overthrowing of an illegitimate government an act of treason; without a doubt, many have had this thought about me. Now that you have joined us, it is the same thought that others will have about you. But loyalty to a higher truth is not treason, for the ways of God are not the ways of man, and they are most emphatically not the ways of woman.

Poems are made of words. They aren't boxes. They aren't houses. Nobody is in them, really.

I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed. There's a lot that doesn't bear thinking about. Thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last.