Thinking Quotes - Page 12

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

David Foster Wallace

...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.

Haruki Murakami

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.

Hannah Arendt

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.

Jane Austen

It's nice to have things to look forward to.

Stephen Chbosky

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Robert A. Heinlein

It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.

Anna Godbersen

We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.

Joel Osteen

Groceries, you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. Drop everything else but that. Because if you can't learn to master your thinking, you're in deep trouble forever.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Thoughts are circular, they don't take you anywhere. They don't have feet-they can't gain any ground. They can trap you if you don't eventually stand up and make a move.

Katie Kacvinsky

You will always be the answer, when somebody asks me what I'm thinking about.

Lisa Brooks

Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be."Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.

Raymond Chandler

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

Horace Walpole

And of course, when you see your brother in the toilet bowl...there's a little voice that say, 'I wonder where he would go...'...if it hadn't been for his head...

Bill Cosby

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

Lao Tzu

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Susan Sontag

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Christopher Hitchens

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Voltaire

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Jim Morrison

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

Victor Hugo

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Harlan Ellison

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them

Albert Einstein

Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.

Veronica Roth

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

Marianne Williamson

Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for a way to shatter the glass doors of a museum. When you think about something, it adds a bit of weight to your walk, and as you think about more and more things you are liable to feel heavier and heavier, until you are so burdened you cannot take any further steps, and can only sit and stare at the gentle movements of the ocean waves or security guards, thinking too hard bout too many things to do anything else.

Lemony Snicket

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so

David McCullough

Are you in great physical pain, or is that your thinking expression?

G.A. Aiken

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits...

A.A. Milne

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

Sylvia Plath

The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

William Francis Butler

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

Warren Ellis

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum

Janet Evanovich

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.

Henry Ford

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

Ray Bradbury

I thought I would stand myself a little dinner. I hadn't quite enough sense to know that what I really wanted was human companions. There aren't such things. Every man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.

Aleister Crowley

It is curious why anybody should pooh-pooh a study of fossils or various forms of rocks or lava. Such things grant us our only vision into Natural History’s big book; and it isn't a book in first-class condition. Far from it! Just a tiny scrap; a slip; or, possibly a big chunk is found, with nothing notifying us as to how it got to that particular point, nor how long ago. Man can only look at it, lift it, rap it, cut into it, and squint at it through a magnifying glass. And,— think about it. That’s all; until a formal study brings accompanying thoughts from many minds; and, by such tactics, judging that in all probability such and such a rock or fossil footprint is about so old. Natural History holds you in its grasp through just this impossibility of finding actual facts; for it is thus causing you to think. Now, thinking is not only a voluntary function; it is an acquisition; an art. Plants do not think. Animals probably do, but in a primary way, such as an aid in knowing poisonous foods, and how to bring up an offspring with similar ability. But Man can, and should think, and think hard and constantly. It is ridiculous to rush blindly into an action without looking forward to lay out a plan. Such an unthinking custom is almost a panic, and panic is but a mild form of insanity

Ernest Vincent Wright

When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

C.S. Lewis

Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between.

Tanya Huff

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Voltaire

Feelings should never supersede rational thought... so, if you feel that you've got the answer, you should think some more.

Julie Ann Elliott-Morton

I'm addicted to the way I feel when I think about you!

Nehali Lalwani

Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought.

Eckhart Tolle

Facts don't care about your feelings.

Ben Shapiro

there are things some people can never understand.there's no point to telling them.

Chetan Bhagat

Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the bill came due. It left her lucid mind to do dishes.

Ann Brashares

Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Bodie Thoene

The author called us to re-examine assumptions bequeathed to us from Greece and Rome. Just as a bridge built by the Roman Empire might have held up tolerably for centuries under foot traffic but crumble under the weight of a modern truck, the author cautions that classical thinking had limits exposed by contemporary events and certainly exposed by the modern world.

Francis A.Schaeffer

Every time that we consider our past, examine our present environment, and speculate about the future, we engage in mental projection. Contemplation merges into thinking, and thinking unspools into theorizing suppositions. Every act of attentiveness expands our state of awareness. Deductive surmises represent an ongoing process of making applicable connections between theories and facts. Devising working hypothesis represents one of the highest intellectual achievements of humankind.

Kilroy J. Oldster

you can accomplish more than you think you can. most of your limitations are in your mind.

Ernie J. Zelinski

I can't escape reality but my mind can twist it for me. Therefore, mind can manipulate things.

Aser Alas Jr.

The human mind is a rover, it constantly returns to think about times past, cogitates upon the future, and actively considers the entire range of alternative plans to meet our daily survival demands.

Kilroy J. Oldster

The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or ‘feeling-thinking’ to define language that speaks the truth. Eduardo Galeano

Rob Brezsny

Humans make tools. Some animals make tools too. The making and using of tools is important for developing language, how we think and speak. If we do not make anything, it affects our thinking.

Matthew De Abaitua

Necessary features of the human mind impose structure upon our experiences. Language acts as a gatekeeper for the mind. We learn and embark on personal transformation by formulating, revising, and refining our conception of the world each time that we encounter new facts, experiences, ideas, and viewpoints. To understand the world a person must employ reason and organize their episodic personal experiences into a system of narrative thought. The language that we employ to internalize our personal experiences constructs our mental system, and our mental thoughts in turn regulate us. We become of a personification of our language, as expressed in narrative stories of the self.

Kilroy J. Oldster

We can only think in a language that we master.

José Luis Ruiz

Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.

Jonathan Price

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