Thought Generation Quotes

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know.

Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential thoughts is to start putting them down.

Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.

Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, broadens and strengthens the mind. The closet is a perfect school-teacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer. We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours in the study.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.

I can't help but always be thinking about ideas.

Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

I truly have come to believe that there are only two states of being that generate our thoughts: LOVE or FEAR.

A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

Philemon explained how Jung treated thoughts as though they were generated by himself, while for Philemon thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air. Jung concluded that Philemon taught him psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche. This helped Jung to understand that there is something in me which can say things that I do not know and do not intend.

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.