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"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking." »Albert Einstein
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"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man." »Bertrand Russell
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"I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much." »Newt Gingrich
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"There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete." »Helen Keller
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"Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love." »Mary Manin Morrissey
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"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality." »Pablo Picasso
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"abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." »Al Capp
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"[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." »Al Capp
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"abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." »Al Capp
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him." »Buddha
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"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality." »Jon Kabit-Zinn
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"The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it." »Henry Kissinger
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"Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought." »Albert Guerard
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"The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation." »Tom Naylor
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"On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light." »Freya Stark
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"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought." »Pierre Bayle
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"Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to." »Paul Valery
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"One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm." »Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
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"Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?" »C. S. Lewis
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"O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out." »W. B. Yeats, Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen
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"Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"With abstract of all the chain reactions of our lives, love is what makes stories of lives much more cruel.." »The wise Pharoah Moe
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"An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea." »Leland Stowe
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"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did." »James Arthur Baldwin
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"Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire." »Orison Swett Marden
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"Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much." »Peter Ustinov
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"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic." »Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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"Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going." »Laurence J. Peter
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"Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground." »Noah Webster
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