"settled thought" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a feeling or belief that is not open to further debate or consideration. For example, you could say, "The news of his death was met with a sense of settled thought."
There is no settled government view on this, he says.
Recently, they started having thoughts of a more settled life.
As we get used to the fuss of Victor's New York life, it dawns on us that he is being more or less permanently filmed partly to create a form of soapy entertainment, partly to provide him and his pals with some thoughts about what a settled character might be like.
THE PAST AND FUTURE OF A LIBERAL COURT To understand today's jurisprudential crisis, it helps to recognize that liberal constitutional thought is not a single settled body of doctrine but rather a set of ideas that has evolved in response to political, social and economic challenges.
With her long hair and her prancing dog, the woman looks like an advertisement for the bohemian life -- and the living embodiment of those Road Not Taken thoughts that occasionally ripple across the surface of even the most settled adult lives.
Now they were willing to wait for the right man but the Molde manager gave it some thought and decided he and his young family were not yet ready to leave a settled home in Norway.
Parenthetically, the extensive use of the term "scenario planning" (not unique to this book) provokes thoughts of the intriguing tension between the probing, rebellious nature of scenarios and the settled, orderly world of plans.
I mistakenly thought this skill would help me excel in law school, but I quickly learned that law wasn't about freedom of thought and intellectual pursuit, but instead fitting your arguments into smaller and smaller boxes of arbitrary and settled legal standards.
Klopp relished the thought of pre-season training long before last season ended, convinced it would produce a vast improvement from a settled core of players.
The case raised the question long thought settled of whether the Fair Housing Act bans policies that, however neutral on their face, disproportionately harm minorities.
