We look at a fact with words, which is thought, or with conclusions, which again is thought and words, or with knowledge we have acquired previously, which again are words, based on experience, which is the result of memory, which conditions every form of experience. To look at something without thought does not mean to look at something blankly, emptily, but to look at it through the understanding of the whole significance of thought.
From Public Talk 8, New Delhi, 14 February 1962