Historians must break out of the prison of ideas.

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.

The early Indo-Aryans could no more have thought in modern terms of the race prejudice than they could have invented the airplane.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

For if this country—or any other of the great powers—were to make its defense program a function of its domestic employment situation, it would become impossible to conduct a constructive and well-thought out foreign policy or to develop any lasting collaboration.

What? You thought I was a what? You...You...You daughter of a pig!

We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.

One of the most important thought leaders of the Hindu revivalist movement...

It [thought] is a mechanical thing and can solve only mechanical problems. But you want to use it to understand something living; that is the problem. It is not intended for that. Human problems are something living. You cannot use thinking to solve those problems.

Mr. Ai, we’ve seen the same events with different eyes; I wrongly thought they’d seem the same to us.

Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the deep impact it has made on its life and thought.

He had not applauded, he had remained seated, but he had looked at her steadily. From the depths of eternity he had looked at her and Rosalind became immortal. If I could believe him, she thought, if only I could believe him!

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

The fact that Saigyō composed the poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master. He also wrote:
In the mountain village
who are you calling, yobuko-bird?
I thought you lived alone.

Language is the dress of thought.

[to Connor, about his son, John] It seems while I've been the master of illusion, you have been the master of deception. I always thought Immortals couldn't have children. What was it like convincing all those women you loved, that they were the ones unable to have a child?