Quotes about Thought

And if a man believes nothing, but believes it equally so and not so, how would his state be different from a vegetable's?

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament.

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.

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.

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

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.

Hail divinest Melancholy.

What if earth be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein each to other like, more than on earth is thought?

Reason also is choice.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.