Thinking Quotes
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"Think before you speak. Read before you think."
"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
"I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."
"We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking."
"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."
"Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same."
"Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."
"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."
"All thoughts, secret or spoken, belong in a coffee table book written in Braille, so you can really feel the emotions."
"With a palindrome of a name, like Bob, I’d be both right thinking and dyslexic. Would you love me more as a Bob, or as a Bob?"
"I can’t use my intellect to figure out how to bypass my intellect. Love lies through the spirit, not the mind, and love never lies."
"Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."
"When tragedy hits close to home, like your neighbor’s house, it really makes you stop and think. And while you’re thinking, I’ll be speeding off in the getaway car."
"No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think."
"Time is such a waste of time to think about, because the longer you ponder it, the more of it you lose. And before you know it, you don’t know it, because you are nothing but dusty worm food."
"Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious."
"A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years."
"People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out."
"Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts."
"For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."
"...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine."
"My skull is soundproof. And thank God too, or else you’d be able to hear all the horrible things I’m thinking about you."
"I will never claim to know what you are thinking. I only hope I am on your mind."
"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking."
"The decision to empty my mind was a no-brainer."
"Because even among contrarians, I’m a contrarian. But all of this is just words of bronze, third place rhetoric. What do I really mean when I say we want to shock society into awareness? Do we mean we want more originality and individuality? Less TV, more reading, writing, actual thinking? Less sheep, more shepherd pie? Yes, yes, and a little more pie, please. Oh, and some more sweet tea, too"
"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
"Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead."
"I made a cauldron of coffee, and I was thinking we could chug it and then teach each other how to dance by using the bottom of a floating canoe as a ballroom."
"That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox."
"My skull needs a tornado inside, to clean out my thoughts. I’ll call Kansas tomorrow to see if I can rent one for the day."
"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."
"Words are the clothes thoughts wear."
"To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions."
"Life is difficult."
"The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them."
"The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person."
"The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you."
"The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour."
"To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it."
"Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program."
"With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing."
"You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them."
"Decision decides destiny. What God wants you to become is the positive person you decide to become when led by God's spirit."
"Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise."
"He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass."
"For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth."
"Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same."
"His shelf. Good. Noodle dust. Decaying brain collecting dust. Must insert it back in skull—what was I thinking?"
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