Mental Stimulus Quotes

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.

If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea.

It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts.