Thinking Quotes

I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for belief's sake. I mean there's only any point in believing something if it's true.

If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question, it is a good bet that there would be no suicide bombers.

Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose to make his intention absolutely obvious to us.

It would be really worrying if, as a Darwinian, it was impossible to think of ways in which our behavior could be explained.

I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach.

I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.

We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forever condemned to be irrational.

When you read something that good, it's terrifying because you're thinking, "Oh, god, what if I don't get this?"

I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.

Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.

You would think the fury of aerial bombardment would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces. History, even, does not know what is meant.

I think war should be illegal.

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.

Generally speaking, I tend to think that whether a philosopher's views are true is a poor test of their quality. What matter are the arguments they give, and the insights those arguments inspire.

Never trust second thoughts. Next thing you know there'll be a third and a fourth...you'll be thinking forever!

I think writing should be about change.

I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs and suffer such indignities and hardships.

The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.

I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom it falls.

I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.

Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think solitude is an interlude in a period of time, which is populated by others.

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself you don't need those techniques.

I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.

I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not.

I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save £1,000 there's someone saying, 'Oh, we'll invent a tax to take that off him'.

I don't think I'd live in London unless you paid me. Nine figures would be nice.

I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.

I think I wanted to be on Top Gear from a fairly young age because I loved cars and I wanted to do something on telly because I loved TV. I know that I?m ridiculously lucky

For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was made to drink.

I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.

Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don't.

Young people think they know it all, but a lot of old salts around know they don't.

When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.

I'd like to think they're staring at me because of my white-hot animal magnetism, but I'm not Elvis. I'm Lobster Boy, hear me roar.

I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it.

I don't think anybody was ever up 6-2 and would lose the tiebreaker

I do think there is room at the very top for marginal tax changes.

I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.

I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

I don't worry much about whether or not one of my stories contains elements of the supernatural. If I come up with what I think is a nifty concept, I'll give it a whirl.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.

One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.