Indeed it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. There are moments when his cogitations are relatively more respectable than usual, but even at their climaxes they never reach anything properly describable as the level of serious thought. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought. That is to say, they never think anything that has not been thought before and by thousands.
H.L. MenckenTags: thought irony clichés freethought human-race
As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known how to enter, its role in our lives is salutary. It becomes dangerous, on the other hand, when, instead of awakening us to the personal life of the mind, reading tends to take its place, when the truth no longer appears to us as an ideal which we can realize only by the intimate progress of our own thought and the efforts of our heart, but as something material, deposited between the leaves of books like a honey fully prepared by others and which we need only take the trouble to reach down from the shelves of libraries and then sample passively in a perfect repose of mind and body.
Marcel ProustTags: words reading books knowledge mind literature thought
Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen.
Victor HugoTo want to tackle everything rationally is irrational.
Ilyas KassamTags: thought emotion logic rationality reminiscence kassam
I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I think for the sensuality of thought.
Ilyas KassamTags: philosophy mind thought spirit kassam
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.
Washington IrvingTags: imagination liberty thought confinement poet
We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul.
Ilyas KassamTags: dance soul mind psychology thought
Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.
Beryl MarkhamTags: thought discourse arab-kosky
Şu karşıki sandalı görüyor musun? Bakın sahile yaklaşıyor. Onu yürüten şey nedir? Kürekleri değil mi? Ya şu uçan martılar! Kanatları yolunsa artık uçabilir mi? Düşünce de böyledir. Dört duvar arasına kapatılmak istenirse kanatsız kuş, küreksiz sandal oluverir ve bütün manasını kaybeder.
Sait Faik AbasıyanıkTags: thought
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
Charles DarwinTags: science freedom thought illumination
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