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Thought Quotes
"Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky."
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"My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am."
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"Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent."
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"Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing."
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"Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought."
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"I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase."
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"Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer."
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"I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful."
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"When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was."
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"For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion."
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"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."
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"He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable."
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"There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas."
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"I had thought about landing in the Kremlin, but there wasn't enough space."
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"They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults."
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"For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding."
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"When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow."
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"There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one."
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"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought."
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"Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means."
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"I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised."
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"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
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"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."
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"For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought."
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"You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."
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"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."
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"When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that."
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"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
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