Quotes about Thought

Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world - not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

In the fable, the garden is a symbol for the mind.

This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it stood for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence.

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?