Thinking Quotes

Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feeling...

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, i...

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinki...

A foolish German had said that man thought in words. It was totally false; a pernicious doctrine; th...

I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governme...

It might feel, at least to some of us, that our opinions about issues such as abortion and the death...

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else w...

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else w...

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else w...

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else w...

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you...

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very ...

As students grow more and more accustomed to assuming materialism and naturalism in their academic w...

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of p...

weren’t you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you fi...

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should...

When Douglas walked, his mind ran, when he ran, his mind walked.

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and s...

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn,...

Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be."Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinki...

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are...

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I exp...

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we tho...

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

All thought is a feat of association having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind ...

But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to ...

Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligibl...

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.The more you look the more you see.

What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by...

...people don't think in chu

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...