Thinking Quotes

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it.

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act.

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

I think literacy is everything.

Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of it as unique and as ultimate.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.

Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

I think President Obama really does get the value of the arts.

I think my greatest moment in business was when the first Southwest airplane arrived after four years of litigation and I walked up to it and I kissed that baby on the lips and I cried.

Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer.

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.

We had only snacks last time, I think it was OK for a day time menu. But this time it will be late night when people gather so we should add some proper meals.

Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money.

I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.

Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

It’s always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn’t think he already is.

You're not always going to make the right decisions, but you have to be guided by what you think is important.

I think what more and more Americans are concluding is that Donald Trump is not a man who is qualified to be president, and he is not fit to be commander and chief.

I think I've set some big goals. The American people haven't had a raise in 15 years. Getting incomes up is a huge goal. Now maybe it's not as exciting to some people, but it's a huge goal.

I want to put our resources where I think they're most needed: Getting rid of any violent person.

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

I do not think homosexuality is immoral.