Thinking Quotes

Despite these afternoon misgivings and self-reproaches I clung to my notion, ill-defined though it w...

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help...

When thought becomes excessively painful action is the finest remedy.

A little thinking is a dangerous thing.

Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly.

Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly M...

Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be...

If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you w...

According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after thing...

Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transce...

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection ...

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

Analogies it is true decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home.

In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forer...

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concern...

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in ...

You're not a Horse!" the woman

In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously li...

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simpl...

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have ...

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and pref...

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universi...

Have you ever noticed the more you try not to think, the more elaborate your thinking episodes get?

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off ...

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies ...

What I am going to propose is that you write a novel.As you know, the practical advantages of being ...

Well, the terrible fact is that though we are all more or less thinking of something or other all th...

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and tryi...

High magic requires a great clarity of thought, you see, and women's talents do not lie in that dire...

This was not the time to say “I don’t know.” The brothers had begging, hungry looks, like dogs waiti...

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

The trout fisher, like the landscape painter, haunts the loveliest places of the earth, and haunts t...

Author refers to, "short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Why should things be easy to understand?

Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are...

Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers...

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightes...

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In eit...

I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I t...

'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's be...

I've made mistakes before of doing different projects just based on my dreams, my hopes, my thing, a...

Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most...

He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almos...

Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way....

Make thought a whirlwind.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invis...

Thought is the labour of the intellect reverie is its pleasure.

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and...

These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoug...

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bag...

I am extremely happy walking on the downs...I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in c...

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge...

Thinking was torment; why not give up thinking, and drift and dream? But the misery of the world, sh...

Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mou...

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the as...

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him...

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Thinking is like a fountain. Once it gets going at a certain pressure, well, it almost impossible to...

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommo...

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television s...

I remember going with my mom to a random garage sale as a kid and thinking what a cool treasure hunt...

One thought fills immensity.

I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been crit...

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, ...

Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the mat...

As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thin...

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective me...

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, ...

I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selectio...

My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-h...

Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in a...

My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So ...

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits...

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...