Cogitation Quotes

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to.

Avery: "So I've been doing some thinking." Cam: "Oh God." Avery: "Shut up.

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

I always think 12 times before saying anything.

In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Every thought is an afterthought.

But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.