Virginia Woolf Quotes

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

'Confusion is the last stop on the way to clarity,' he told me. 'The part of your mind that thinks it knows it all is butting up against a bigger idea. It's only a matter of time until the smaller thought gives way to the greater. Don't fight it. Just try to enjoy the ride.'

My thinking brain never stops my creative brain never stops so they wrestle a lot and get in fights sometimes they fight in the night and keep me up.

You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

Which means that in order to defeat her, I have to think of a way to defeat myself. And how can I be a better fighter than myself, if she knows the same strategies I know, and is exactly as resourceful and clever as I am?

Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.

I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.

Thinking nurseth thinking.

Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.

I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have to delude yourself and frighten yourself with Iron Age fairy tales. This is a monumental task. I don't think there is an intellectual struggle more worthy of our efforts.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.