Thought quotes

I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.

But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.

It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive.

But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.

I thought it would be easy. I thought it'd take me one year to be Salma Hayek.

I thought 'God, what have I done?'... I realized I would be in serious trouble. I thought the best way out of the mess was to make sure she could not tell anybody.

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Action is only coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn't just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, 'This is going to be huge for me!' And it really wasn't at all.

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: "Oh well," and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just something special about being a senior at Chapel Hill. I just couldn't leave.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

I always hated my mole growing up. I even thought about having it removed. At the time I didn't do it because I thought it would hurt, and now I'm glad I didn't.

The more I thought of the McClure offer the less I thought of it. So I told him last night I was satisfied where I was, and that the $75 he offered me was no inducement.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, andthose who did and never thought.

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.