Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities---that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Thinking is a sign of disturbance. When your bladder doesn't hurt you don't think about it.
~ Marty Rubin
Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i'm Dreamer.
~ The Ek
Thought is everything. Pain is something. Hence where there is no thought there can be no pain. Wherefore if you have a pain it is evident that you have a thought. To be rid of the pain stop thinking.
~ John Kendrick Bangs
Till the time u dont value urslf , the world wont take a step ahead ! Thinking matters !
~ Suchet Chaturvedi
Always think backwards before moving forwards
~ Benny Bellamacina
Good, don't think. Thinking is highly overrated.
~ Mary Jane Auch
My thoughts are really all I think about.
~ Peter Davis
What did an invisible God want from a bunch of frail, selfish people? The only thing Landon could figure was that He'd like for them to learn to love and help one another. Why else would they be living on such a difficult planet?
~ Cindy Woodsmall
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
~ Daniel Kahneman
He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That’s the solution.
~ Stephen King
The modern Westerner, persuaded that he has a right to think for himself and imagining that he exercises this right, is unwilling to acknowledge that his every thought has been shaped by cultural and historical influences and that his opinions fit, like pieces of jigsaw puzzle, into a pattern which has nothing random about it.
~ Charles Le Gai Eaton
It's only because I've lived with brothers that I realize, after a moment, that he's not looking outside but rather inside, wrestling with something inside himself. And there's nothing for it but to wait.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
When I awake thinking of dreams I slept on, I often wonder, if the dreams ever wake up thinking of me?
~ Anthony Liccione
Never again will I underestimate the greatness inside of me just because of the hate and limited thinking inside of others.
~ Steve Maraboli
There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
~ Alain De Botton
I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
Stop allowing your outdated ideas to hinder your progress. Become open to new information that can refine, improve, and enhance your way of thinking. This will empower your way of living.
Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference,ye think it, must ye strive; but after YOUR OWN BEING. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely, the striving after your own being.
~ C.g. Jung
It seems that we had...not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.
~ Ilona Andrews
The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. Therefore every orgy of unreason in the end strengthens the friends of reason, and shows afresh that they are the only true friends of humanity.
~ Bertrand Russell
Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.
~ John Piper
He looked out of the window to think, because without a window he couldn’t think. Or Maybe it was the other way round: where there was a window, he automatically started to think. Then he wrote, ‘When I grow up, I am going to be happy.
~ Guus Kuijer
Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.
~ George Carlin
The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.
~ William S. Burroughs
Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.
~ Jeffrey Pfeffer
You think too much.''I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.
~ Henry James
The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious, you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
~ Bryant Mcgill
I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.
~ Anne Brontë
I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of. I think people who refuse to use other people's knowledge are making a big mistake. Those who refuse to share their knowledge with other people are making a great mistake, because we need it all. I don't have any problem about ideas I got from other people. If I find them useful, I'll just ease them right in and make them my own.
~ Myles Horton
Yet she was so sweet. She wasn’t a hard-ass, wasn’t jaded after all that had been done to her. In bed, she was giving and generous. And she smiled a lot. She seemed to enjoy life.Whereas he’d been nothing but a giant pain in the ass, taking for granted everything that had been given to him. He’d had it so easy, while his parents had struggled to give him a good life so all he had to do was go out and live his dream.He and Savannah were as different as night and day. How could she tolerate being around him? He was nothing but a spoiled football player who craved the spotlight. He didn’t deserve to be sharing a bed with her. She needed someone who cared for her, who thought of nothing but her, who’d give up everything just to give her the kind of life she deserved.He sucked in a breath and realized it was time he made some serious life changes. It was time to go all in and stop hesitating about the things he really wanted in his career. In his life.It was time to start taking some chances.
~ Jaci Burton
I like Saturdays. They are my best thinking days. It is my day to try to find that one special thought that turns into an idea that I remember forever and becomes a part of who I am, like a freckle or a finger or an ear. Even before I open my eyes I take a deep breath and try to picture something, anything, as if my brain were a keyhole where I can spy on my future. So each Saturday morning I try to find a little piece of a thought, and then I keep turning it over in my mind until it turns into a complete idea and at the end of the day when I'm lying in bed I put the whole thought into a little room in my head so I can remember it.
~ Jack Gantos
People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know.
~ Idries Shah
The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse.
~ Jack London
The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.
It doesn’t matter what you think, what you believe or what you feel the only thing that ultimately matters is what you do.
~ Na
The less you think and the more you do, the better things tend to become.
~ Silvia Hartmann
Critical thinking is a necessary and vital skill.~R. Alan Woods [2012]
~ R. Alan Woods
Author refers to, short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.
~ Thomas Hughes
