The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.
There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.
For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.
Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Language is the dress of thought.
I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.
Writing is thinking in slow motion.
Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.
I can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual process of learning more and more about how my thinking process is different. You know it's bottom up - you take specific examples to make concepts and then I put them in categories.
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.
Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language - when you watch a film or listen to a tape - you don't press pause.
The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.
