The mind is independent of the man. He has no control over it; it does as it pleases. It will take up a subject in spite of him; it will stick to it in spite of him; it will throw it aside in spite of him. It is entirely independent of him.
Thinking - Thought Quotes
If I had to think about what I was going to do every day, I’d be a raving lunatic.
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old and ugly subtlety.
That’s the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they’ve been all along.
Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren’t turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
There are two sorts of curiosity – the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.
I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, “This is what I believe. Finished.” What I believe is alive… and open to growth.
