“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.”
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Anthony Hopkins3
Welsh stage and television actor 1937Related quotes
“I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.”
Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958) Austrian physicist, Nobel prize winner
Ich habe nichts dagegen wenn Sie langsam denken, Herr Doktor, aber ich babe etwas dagegen wenn Sie rascher publizieren als denken.
As quoted in The Harvest of a Quiet Eye : A Selection of Scientific Quotations (1977) by Alan Lindsay Mackay, p. 117
Dana Loesch (1978) American conservative political commentator
Loesch: More Outrage over Lion's Death Than Planned Parenthood Videos http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/07/30/dana-loesch-more-outrage-over-cecil-lion-planned-parenthood-videos (July 30, 2015)
“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Iain Banks (1954–2013) Scottish writer
“Descendant” (p. 46)
Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991)