Famous quotes with Absence of thought

• There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

  Samuel Butler
• Dogmatism does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• Words are not deeds. In published poems — we think first of Eliot's "Jew", words edge closer to deeds. In Céline's anti-Semitic textbooks, words get as close to deeds as words can well get. Blood libels scrawled on front doors are deed. In a correspondence, words are hardly even words. They are soundless cries and whispers, "gouts of bile," as Larkin characterized his political opinions, ways of saying, "Gloomy old sod, aren't I?" Or more simply, "Grrr." Correspondences are self-dramatizations. Above all, a word in a letter is never your last word on any subject. There was no public side to Larkin's prejudices, and nothing that could be construed as a racist — the word suggest a system of thought, rather than an absence of thought, which would be closer to the reality, closer to the jolts and twitches of self response.

  Martin Amis
• The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.

  André Maurois

One antonym for the term "focus groups" is "individual interviews." While focus groups involve a group of people discussing a particular topic, individual interviews involve a one-...