Thinking Quotes

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow's falser than the former day.

I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.

I think that you're just as close to Jesus if you use the equipment he gave you other than to call on him to do for you what you can do for yourself.

My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.

If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!

The Lord is the accomplishment of everything good that I think, feel and do.

What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink.

The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy... it becomes simple, fair and easy.

I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.

Everything we think and feel (and keep thinking and feeling) creates, deep within, the brain we have.

Don't be too concerned about what others think of you. It's what you think about yourself that matters!

Don't think I am going to let Bob Hoskins take all his clothes off and me not take a look? I just had a quick look up and down, like you would.

I think it's important to be happy before you can make anybody else happy.

When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think

The only thing pot does for me is it gets me to stop thinking. Sometimes I have a brain that needs to be turned off. Some people are just better high.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

Normal people think I'm insane.

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men.

I was never really attached to a clique, and I wanted to be in all the different groups; I was never a one-group kind of person. I think that's still part of my personality today.

I think that's kind of indicative of a type of self-confidence that people develop when they recognize their own ability to create.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

What United have got that Chelsea haven't is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football.

I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline.

Shakespeare's gone, don't even think about it.

As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

In the 21st Century, I'd like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily harassment, as well as any other form of inequality.

Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.

Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

People need each other and think it is love. There's no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves.

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?

Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

I don't really look around and say, 'I've made it.' I just look around and think how fortunate I am to work with the people I'm working with.

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere.

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.