Quotes about thinking page 38
Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Brother Lawrence book The Practice of the Presence of God
Variant: Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God
“No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think.”
Deb Caletti (1963) American writer
Source: The Six Rules of Maybe
“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
Susan Sontag Regarding the Pain of Others
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Secret
“Each time I wake, I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't.”
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008), p. 194
Context: I enter a nightmare from which I wake repeatedly only to find a greater terror awaiting me. All the things I dread most, all the things I dread for others manifest in such vivid detail I can’t help but believe they're real. Each time I wake, I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't. It's only the beginning of a new chapter of torture. How many ways do I watch Prim die? Relive my father's last moments? Feel my own body ripped apart? This is the nature of the tracker jacker venom, so carefully created to target the place where fear lives in your brain.
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“He will get through this, even if he thinks he won't.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Source: City of Ashes
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Remarks at the U.S. Naval Academy (1 August 1963), Public Papers of the Presidents 321, p. 620
1963
“Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.”
Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer
Source: All These Things I've Done
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Walking on Water (1980)
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Variant: I think that if we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: On the Edge
Alan Turing (1912–1954) British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist
Source: Mechanical Intelligence: Collected Works of A.M. Turing
“Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story
“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
Source: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
Patrick Lencioni (1965) American writer
Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.”
Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor
Variant: A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Larry King (1933) American television and radio host
Source: How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere (1994), Ch. 1: Talk 101, p. 28
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”
Peace Pilgrim (1908–1981) American non-denominational spiritual teacher
Laura Amy Schlitz (1955) children's author
Source: The Hired Girl
“I think it was the institution… I was trying to master it.”
E. Lockhart book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
“Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?”
“I notice when you're not. Does that count?”
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Saving Francesca
“I'm a misunderstood genius."
"What's misunderstood?"
"Nobody thinks I'm a genius.”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
“Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question everything you are.”
Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist
Source: The Princess Diarist
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Unleashed
Julie Garwood (1946) American writer
Source: The Secret
“Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork — reading, writing, thinking — can.”
Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012) American author, editor, publisher, and businesswoman
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Saving Francesca
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Dark Needs at Night's Edge
“The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.”
Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin
Source: Let the Great World Spin
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
"Einstein's Reply to Criticisms" (1949), The World As I See It (1949)
Context: A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows. We call him good or bad according to how he stands in this matter. It looks at first sight as if our estimate of a man depended entirely on his social qualities.
And yet such an attitude would be wrong. It is clear that all the valuable things, material, spiritual, and moral, which we receive from society can be traced back through countless generations to certain creative individuals. The use of fire, the cultivation of edible plants, the steam engine — each was discovered by one man.
Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society — nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
“Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
Donna Tartt book The Secret History
Source: The Secret History
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
Variant: So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.”
Helene Hanff book 84, Charing Cross Road
Source: 84, Charing Cross Road
Brian Andreas (1956) American artist
Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas
“I think my life would be easier, she said,
if I could just get my selves to agree on something.”
Brian Andreas (1956) American artist
Source: Still Mostly True