Naivete Quote by Hal Clement

“[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance.”

— Ben Elton

“Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth?”

— Karen Witemeyer

“We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only guide it by taking…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“He knew that the disdain for death and crazy courage of youngsters stemmed from a lack of imagination.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.”

— Mel Odom

“the human thought, if properly focused, had the ability to affect and change ”

— Dan Brown

“Thinking was going on then as now; and thinking after all, is the flesh and blood of life; action seemed to her all out…

— Virginia Woolf

“It was not possible to think except with one’s brain, no one could stand outside himself in order to check the functioning of his…

— Stanisław Lem

“But he did not think....thoughts formed in him and dissolved without control, almost like a reverie. And since he had got through life in…

— Victor Serge

“None of my mental activities for the past twenty-four hours might be called thinking. I had allowed my body to take charge. It knew…

— Geoffrey Household

“The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.”

— Bruce Lee

“In his memory there was a great tendency to downplay or completely forget their unlovable characteristics. [...] The thoughts that came wanted to be…

— Stephen King