Michael Kurland: Quotes about thinking

Michael Kurland is American writer. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.
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“Well, what that means is that it doesn’t happen very often. Now it’s happened to one small group of people—us—twice in a short time. That would seem to indicate that,” he ticked a finger, “something’s seriously out of whack in general, or,” he ticked the next finger, “someone’s out to get us in particular; which I feel is quite unlikely. At times in my paranoid past I would have assumed that the Universe is teaming up to get me, but now I’m more objective and I don’t believe that. I think it, but I don’t believe it.”

Michael Kurland book The Unicorn Girl

Source: The Unicorn Girl (1969), Chapter 4 (p. 40)

“Good thinking,” the tall man agreed. “In this case it’s not true, but it is good thinking.”

Michael Kurland

Source: Tomorrow Knight (1976), Chapter 6 (p. 57)

“I don’t like eating in the dark. Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they’re trying to hide the food.”

Michael Kurland book The Unicorn Girl

Source: The Unicorn Girl (1969), Chapter 9 (p. 130)

“It’s what a man thinks is true which controls his actions, not what is really true.”

Michael Kurland

Source: Tomorrow Knight (1976), Chapter 13 (p. 138)

“We are greatly complimented, my lord,” Marquis Sherrinford said dryly. “You don’t think we’re gibbering madmen.”

Michael Kurland book Ten Little Wizards

Source: Ten Little Wizards (1988), Chapter 15 (p. 153)