Quotes about thinking

One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them. One must know how to leave one's own ideas and how to come back to them.

Beyond the brain, there is something that observes the brain itself.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Once we have tasted the juice of words, our mind can no longer pass them by. We drink thought from them.

All reflection is art.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms; or, if you like, it blossoms from the word that presents it and clothes it.

To think what we do not feel is to lie to ourselves, in the same way that we lie to others when we say to others what we do not think. Everything we think must be thought with our entire being, body, and soul.

Perhaps (and probably) it would be true to say that we cannot conceive of anything except what we can see in our minds.

Where do ideas go? They go into the memory of God.

A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

I love to see two truths at the same time. Every good comparison gives the mind this advantage.