Thinking Quotes

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.

A consecrated space experientially reminds you that there is much more to life than you think.

I don't think I've made a mistake. I think I have behaved in ways that I am proud of; I think I've behaved in ways I'm not.

if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.

Good try, ya bugging shank. The Gathering elects Runners, and if you think I'm tough, they'd laugh in your face.

We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

Mr. Chairman, I think the record should show that for the first time since McKinley, we have a Republican president worth shooting, and I think that's a good sign.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

Clowns make me... Think.

I think the macho mystique was far more a guiding principle in our Dad's generation than ours, the 'strong silent type' was much more common.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

I think "MythBusters" is a step up from special effects because we not only have to make things look like they work, they actually do have to work. It's more challenging and even transcendental.

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

Generally I'm very supportive of farmers. I think the wider Australian population is also. The animal justice fund is focusing on factory-farmed animals and where they're being mistreated.

No matter how sorted you think you are, you will always be surrounded by people who are lost and angry. They will test you time and time again.

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don't think there's any harm in that at all.

When you think you can't do any more repetitions, do two more.

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

I don't think it's natural for two people to swear to be together for the rest of their lives.

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

I think the most important thing to do is to be willing to listen, willing to care, and willing to admit mistakes and change your ways for the better!

Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.

The best thing is not to think about [separatism]. [People in Alberta] don't even want to engage in talking pros and cons and why people feel this way.

When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.

I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.

Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it.

Ahhhhhhhh. There is nothing natural about natural childbirth. It is as close to a freak accident as anything I can think of. Why I picked a time like this to go off drugs?

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.

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

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

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

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails.

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.