Thinking Quotes

And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God. What I'm saying is that the thought of the man and the way this thinking-feeling can reach an extreme degree of incommunicability - that, without sophism or paradox, is at the same time, for that man, the point of greatest communication. He communicates with himself.

~ Clarice Lispector

Instead of breaking or cherry-picking the rules, many just follow the inner rules, which have been instilled during their lifetime and have subtly permeated their thinking. They value rules, as it offers the ravishment of a securing, ceremonial rhythm in life and it prevents them from breaking free from their cocoon, all the more because freedom can be so scaring and exhausting. (When forgetting the rules of the game )

~ Erik Pevernagie

To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don’t do this, you just declare yourself being fascist!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Technically, you don't pay me.And technically, most of what I do is think.I...rrr. ummm.And when you get right down to it, I'm better at it than you are.-Ennesby & Captain Tagon

~ Howard Tayler

When a person pauses in mid-sentence to choose a word, that's the best time to jump in and change the subject! It's like an interception in football! You grab the others guy's idea and run the opposite way with it! The more sentences you complete, the higher your score! The idea is to block the other guy's thoughts and express your own! That's how you win!Conversations aren't contests!Ok, a point for you, but I'm still ahead.

~ Bill Watterson

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

~ Abraham Lincoln

It was starting to seem to her that being forward-thinking too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.

~ Kristin Cashore

Each thinking mind is a political mind

~ Zaman Ali

Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly.

~ Sam Harris

It is what it is because you let it be so.

~ Suzy Kassem

Many men remain spoiled boys that have never grown up. Women are prepared to raise them and take pain with patience, both as a condescendant contribution to supercilious compassion and as a proof of the eminence of their sense of worth. (Prêt-à-penser / Ready-to-wear thinking)

~ Erik Pevernagie

High magic requires a great clarity of thought, you see, and women's talents do not lie in that direction. Their brains tend to overheat.

~ Terry Pratchett

I think she's too single for me, and she thinks I'm with two other people. She also thinks she thinks, I think.

~ Will Advise

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

~ Albert Einstein

[C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50)

~ Jean-Yves Leloup

Something else emerges from this discussion about us as human individuals: we're not fixed, stable intellects riding along peering at the world through the lenses of our eyes like the pilots of people-shaped spacecraft. We are affected constantly by what's going on around us. Whether our flexibility is based in neuroplasticity or in less dramatic aspects of the brain, we have to start acknowledging that we are mutable, persuadable and vulnerable to clever distortions, and that very often what we want to be is a matter of constant effort rather than attaining a given state and then forgetting about it. Being human isn't like hanging your hat on a hook and leaving it there, it's like walking in a high wind: you have to keep paying attention. You have to be engaged with the world.

~ Nick Harkaway

How could we change the way we think? Through renewed knowledge.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Meditation does not involve trying to change your thinking by thinking some more. It involves watching thought itself. The watching is the holding. By watching your thoughts without being drawn into them, you can learn something profoundly liberating about thinking itself, which may help you to be less of a prisoner of those thought patterns (….)

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I see these pictures of people in Beijing and New Delhi, walking around with masks on, because you can't walk outside your house and breathe? If you can't breathe?…If that's not the cue to make a fundamental change, I don't know what is!

~ Bill Maher

When you change the way you think about a situation, everything connected to that situation will change.

~ Rhonda Byrne

People undergo several sequential steps in maturing from infancy including childhood, adolescences, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Each stage presents distinct challenges that require a person to amend how they think and act. The motive for seeking significant change in a person’s manner of perceiving the world and behaving vary. Alteration of person’s mindset can commence with a growing sense of awareness that a person is dissatisfied with an aspect of his or her life, which cause a person consciously to consider amending their lifestyle.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Apathy is the door to ignorance. Empathy is the door to wisdom.

~ Suzy Kassem

If there is anything like a unifying aesthetic principle in mathematics, it is this: simple is beautiful. Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

~ Paul Lockhart

The more I try to understand one very peculiar aspect of women, it seems clear to me that apart from the beauty or the sensuous state that women command over men, there is an interiority, lesser known to the masses which is more of agony and pain - a resultant effort of the continuous mood swings and the frequent natural cycles that buoy them, it is in this state that women function and calibrate on this basis in selecting their soul mate and not the usual histrionics that men take effort in pleasing them!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

The more I try to understand one very peculiar aspect of women, it seems clear to me that apart from the beauty or the sensuous state that women command over men, there is an inferiority, lesser known to the masses which is more of agony and pain - a resultant effort of the continuous mood swings and the frequent natural cycles that buoy them, it is in this state that women function and calibrate on this basis in selecting a life partner and not the usual histrionics that men take effort in pleasing them!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention is turned to the circumstances in which we live, we are drawn into a whirlpool of thoughts and can have neither peace nor tranquility.

~ Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good, a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.

~ C.s. Lewis

Your soul understands more than you think.

~ Atom Tate

As the sun sets, something in me rises! Do you think it could be my soul? I feel it's a big probability!

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

If you want people to to think, give them intent, not instruction.

~ L. David Marquet

Richest leaders are not those who have calories in their bank accounts, but those who have fats in their positive ideas.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought.

~ Unarine Ramaru

You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.You explore every avenue and possibility of your situationat high speed with total clarity.

~ Banksy

Thinking is not a thing that can undo itself. It can never be its own solution.

~ Zachary Thomas Dodson

The work of art always requires us to adapt to it—and in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment, which instead aims to adapt to the audience, to give the public exactly what it wants. We can tell that we are encountering a real work of art by the degree to which it resists subjectivity.

~ Ted Gioia

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

~ Susan Cain

Living in new shapes, reshapes our thinking

~ Lois Farfel Stark

I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.

~ Joyce Rachelle

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

~ Warren Buffett