Thought Quotes

• Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Thought
  • Painting
  • Act

• As a younger person I think I thought of myself as a Tony [from The Best Man], struggling with the legacy of my famous parents.

  

  Chris Hart
  • Parents
  • Myself
  • Legacy

• No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

  

  Will Yun Lee
  • Thought
  • Subject

• He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

  

  Jules Michelet
  • Reality
  • Thought
  • Understand

• All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Thought
  • Known
  • Much

• The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Feeling
  • Consciousness
  • Youth

• When I think of the most able students I have encountered in my teaching - I mean those who have distinguished themselves not only by skill but by independence of thought - then I must confess that all have had a lively interest in epistemology.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Interest
  • Students
  • Independence

• As if thought were not our most passionate, our most ardent aspect.

  

  Carole Maso
  • Passionate
  • Aspect
  • Ardent

• O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

  

  George Eliot
  • Thought
  • Dead
  • Affection

• I once saw a Betsey Johnson runway show that featured thongs and "ass cleavage," and I thought, This is the future.

  

  Cintra Wilson
  • Future
  • Show
  • Betsey Johnson

• They (Boeing) knew how big it was going to be, how it was going to be powered, but they really hadn't thought a whole lot about what the inside would be and how does the crew interface with the vehicle that's designed to operate automatically.

  

  Christopher Ferguson
  • Inside
  • Do Not
  • Crew

• "It" is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

  

  Aristotle
  • Believe
  • Desire
  • Things

• I'm portraying out characters, I'm portraying femme characters, characters that are really outside of the box. I never thought I would get that opportunity to portray those characters at all, much less have a career that I have.

  

  Nico Santos
  • Opportunity
  • Characters
  • Would

• Freedom of thought is the only good that is perhaps more precious than peace, for the simple reason that, without it, peace would merely be another name of servitude.

  

  Andre Comte-Sponville
  • Freedom
  • Peace
  • Servitude

• For a long time I though that one had to accomplish something. Now I just watch, listen, receive. Live.

  

  Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa
  • Live
  • Watch
  • Accomplish

• I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Thought
  • Gilbert Grape

• I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you how to cope with defeat, and with complications of all sort. I think I'm a well-coordinated person, more than average, and I think that came through my interest in sports, and athletics... Playing basketball you have to make decisions promptly, and that's true in the operating room as well.

  

  Denton Cooley
  • Sports
  • Person
  • Basketball

• Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

  

  Rumi
  • You
  • Possess
  • Quest

• Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

  

  Dana Gioia
  • Understanding
  • Poetry
  • Expressing

• He did exactly what I thought and anticipated, ... It was perfect.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Perfect
  • Did
  • Anticipated

• One thought fills immensity.

  

  William Blake
  • Thought
  • Immensity

• After the launch of Bumble Date, users were starting to connect as friends, so we decided to launch BFF. When I was using BFF, I matched with someone who I then went on to hire at Bumble HQ. From there, I thought, why not create a platform for women to build business connections and advance their careers.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Women
  • Why
  • Business

• Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Thought
  • Birth
  • Bodies

• A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

  

  Alan Sokal
  • Thought
  • Content
  • Mode

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