Thinking Quotes

I could not think without writing.

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what...

I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinki...

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop ...

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak...

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's que...

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is t...

When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone,...

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader...

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the troublewith women,

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Every...

Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying...

Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying...

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my ac...

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard...

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such ...

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must...

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important...

Vulnerability is the curse of the thinking classes.

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and h...

Mother's intentions were always sound, never muddy; I don't imagine that she troubled herself to fee...

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mindabout nothing -- to let the ...

Thought is everything. Pain is something. Hence where there is no thought there can be no pain. Wher...

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go...

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read o...

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read o...

The thoughts that come often unsought and as it were drop into the mind are commonly the most va...

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

Thinking is indispensable on the path to passion for God. Thinking is not an end in itself. Nothing ...

The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thin...

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may b...

I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by Go...

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thin...

Thinking is indispensable on the path to passion for God. Thinking is not an end in itself. Nothing ...

The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thin...

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may b...

I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by Go...

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thin...

Thinking is indispensable on the path to passion for God. Thinking is not an end in itself. Nothing ...

The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thin...

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thin...

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may b...

I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by Go...

The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thin...

Thinking is indispensable on the path to passion for God. Thinking is not an end in itself. Nothing ...

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may b...

I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by Go...

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thin...

We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to b...

I wonder about people who say they haven't time to think. For myself, I can double think. I find tha...

An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dre...

... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or ...

In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting ...

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.

The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in m...

While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of t...

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once ...

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reac...

To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract.

Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, ...

This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost ...

Thinking is like loving and dying - each of us must do it for himself.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Thinking of things" is but a special way of dealing with them; but, as is obvious, it is a secondary...

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are s...

I just needed time alone with my own thoughtsGot treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own va...

Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel bra...

…Oh dear, I sometimes think…whatever would I do if anything happened…But thinking's no good, is it, ...

As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is pe...

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conser...

...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.

Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brou...

The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can...

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and gen...

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

The thought cross his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wo...

It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It alwa...

It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little...

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are ...

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fant...

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity the intolerable l...

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I w...

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

He who thinks little errs much…