Thinking Quotes

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as much its business to be seeking me.

In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn.

As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.

You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.

The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.

We are at full stop. We think we have arrived.

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you still have to file your 990 each year.

Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses.

I think that what people have failed to talk about is white supremacy.

I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United States.

I also think that one of the things we often fail to realize is that that kind of violence is now legitimated in multiple public spheres.

FDR was enormously influenced by this, and afraid. I mean, his intervention was to save capitalism. It wasn't to basically appease the workers. And I think that today you don't have those movements.

I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray.

Certainly I think the state is more than willing to not only attempt to change the consciousness of people, but to employ violence in ways that make people quite fearful.

I think people now live in an age in which the only thing - they don't think about getting ahead. They think about surviving.

We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking and leads to violence.

I think control is the wrong word. I would put it this way. You see a lovely girl across a crowded room and you walk toward her with hope in your mind. That's the way [my] pictures are made.

I think it's fair to have a vote on a resolution for censure.

Being in Hawaii, it's almost impossible not to be fit, I think.

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

If you want an honest dialogue, you can't criticize someone for what they say. You can't teach someone to think in a certain way.

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?

You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.

Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?