Quotes about thinking

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“Balance your thoughts with action. — If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”

“Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.”

“The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.”

“I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.”

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

“I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.”

“We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”

“I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”

“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”

“I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.”

“He used to say to his melancholia patients:
"You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription. Try to think every day how you can please someone.”

“And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.”

“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”

“That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?”

“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.”

“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination.”

“Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.”

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

“Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

“If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.”

“Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?”

“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence”

“It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.”

“I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.”

“The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.”

“he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors”

“Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love.”

“Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.”

“If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing… then you are a writer.”

“Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.”

“I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.”

“There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.”

“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.”

“I think we deserve people who really, really love us.”

“I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.”

“Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.”

“I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.”

“I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.”

“You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself”

“People who don't think shouldn't talk.”

“Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”

“Welcome the view that the things which you think are wrecking your life - like your thoughts and emotions, or illness and death - are actually gifts for your transformation… Whether life presents us with a pleasant sound or an unpleasant sound, a pleasant smell or an unpleasant smell, a pleasant thought or an unpleasant thought, it's sheer delight because instead of identifying with the experience, we simply touch it and let it go.”

“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”

“Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.”

“(Raven) "Makes me think of werewolves. Do you think a man can change into an animal?"
(Alexander) "If he's with the right girl.”

“Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?”

“Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?”

“As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.”

“For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”

“A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”

“Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.”

“The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.”

“I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.”

“High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.”

“Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is”

“Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

“Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.”

“You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.”

“I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.”

“If you’ll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.”

“And what did I think
when I was small
and why did I forget?

And what else will I forget
when I grow older?

And if you forget
is it as if
it never happened?

Will none of the things
you saw or thought or dreamed
matter?”

“When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.”

“I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.”

“You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-"
"I think as a human being," she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women- they just make more noise about being able to.”

“I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.”

“My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.”

“They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.”

“The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.”

“Don't be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn't do what you do, or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.”

“I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.”

“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.”

“I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy,
To share with me in glory any more:
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere;”

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”

“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.”

“Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.”

“You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed.”

“Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.”

“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”

“The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.”

“Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.”

“Frank Sinatra stopped his car. The light was red. Pedestrians passed quickly across his windshield but, as usual, one did not. It was a girl in her twenties. She remained at the curb staring at him. Through the corner of his left eye he could see her, and he knew, because it happens almost every day, that she was thinking, It looks like him, but is it? Just before the light turned green, Sinatra turned toward her, looked directly into her eyes waiting for the reaction he knew would come. It came and he smiled. She smiled and he was gone.”

“You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?"

"That depends," he said. "Do you wish to be punched in the face?”

“I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.”

“Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.”

“Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.”

“The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, “What about me?” and you can just hear the universe replying, “Well, what about you?”

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”

“There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.”

“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”

“Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women.”

“I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.”

“We're all in the dark. We try to find out, but can you imagine anything more ludicrous than one person's opinion of another person? One goes along thinking one knows; but one really doesn't know”

“Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.”

“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”

“How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?”

“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”

“That's not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people would lead better lives."

IF PEOPLE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO DIE, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULDN'T LIVE AT ALL.”