Thinking Quotes

All men have opinions, but few think.

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation.

People love America. Sometimes they don't like the decisions made by America, but I don't think you want a president who tries to become popular and does the wrong thing.

You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

I think actions speak louder than words is one thing I think I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do.

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.

I don't think we'll shoot 76 percent in a half ever again. That's crazy.

Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians.

It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature of one artist, the work of one wrist.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking about Obama or blacks or Willie Horton.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after the country, because they won't.

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.

I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.

I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.

To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact reverse of how most people think, speak and act.

...You'd think the little part about them supposedly killing us would be the attention getter.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know

I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

I only allow that which is good into my life. No one can depress you. No one can make you anxious. No one can hurt your feelings. No one can make you anything.....other than what you allow!

Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.