Quotes about thinking

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“Have you tried talking to her?"
"No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?”

“The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.”

“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”

“You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.”

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

“Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good.”

“You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.”

“If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.”

“The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.”

“Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.”

“The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.”

“I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.”

“Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.”

“I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”

“… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.”

“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”

“You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.”

“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.”

“Think… of the world you carry within you.”

“I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.”

“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”

“We should add that it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk: it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love. Eventually”

“When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?”

“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people”

“Think globally, act locally.”

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.”

“Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.”

“People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”

“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.”

“Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself”

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”

“Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.'
-Marielle”

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”

“If you wish to be happy, Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change”

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”

“You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.”

“Is he all scarred now?”

“Magic gets rid of most physical scars, but I like to think I scarred him emotionally.”

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”

“The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean-
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition.”

“Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.”

“Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust?
Very nearly everyone, come to think of it…”

“We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties”

“Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.”

“people who have no hold over their process of thinking ara likely to be ruined by liberty of thought.”

“I kill a sofa for you and you go and sit in a chair?” Skulduggery asked. “I don’t think you appreciate the sacrifice that has been made for you.”

“An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.”

“He who thinks little, errs much.”

“We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.”

“!"
I wasn't sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant 'Eat my pants!”

“When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.”

“When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.”

“I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.”

“I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.”

“I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.”

“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”

“Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
Ophelia: No, my lord.
Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters?
Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord.
Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.
Ophelia: What is, my lord?
Hamlet: Nothing.”

“Raven: So Alexander, now we know what we do all day. What do you do? Alexander: I spend it thinking about you.”

“I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.”

“The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.”

“Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.”

“Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.”

“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”

“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common….”

“You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.”

“You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.”

“Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.”

“Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.”

“Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.”

“But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’
Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”

“I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”

“You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.”

“The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.”

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

“True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there."-Kyoko”

“We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”

“I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.”

“Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.”

“When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.”

“Women Are Not Roses

Women have no
beginning
only continual
flows.

Though rivers flow
women are not
rivers.

Women are not
roses
they are not oceans
or stars.

i would like to tell
her this but
i think she
already knows.”

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”

“Don't you think baby corns are scary? There's just something wrong about their midget bodies.”

“If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.”

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.”

“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”

“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe remember you can achieve.”

“But let me tell you this: sometimes at night, when I look up at the stars, an see the whole sky jus laid out there, don't you think I ain't rememberin it all. I still got dreams like anybody else, an ever so often, I am thinkin about how things might of been. An then, all of a sudden, I'm forty, fifty, sixty years ole, you know?
Well, so what? I may be a idiot, but most of the time, anyway, I tried to do the right thing-- an dreams is jus dreams, ain't they? So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.
You know what I mean?”

“When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.”

“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”

“Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are”

“It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.”

“We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.”

“Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.”

“But if I don’t think about love, I will be nothing.”

“I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.”

“I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.”

“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.”

“and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.”