Thinking Quotes

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

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

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

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

~ G.a. Aiken

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

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

~ Lloyd Alexander

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

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

...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

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

~ Stephen King

We become, neurologically, what we think.(33)

~ Nicholas Carr

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

~ Anthony De Mello

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

~ Albert Einstein

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

~ Neil Postman

There's nothing wrong with that. Nothing at all. I think sometimes the Lord wants us to wonder. To ask. To share our uncertainties. He wants to give us those answers. Keep thinking. Keep wondering, Gideon.

~ Joanne Bischof

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

~ Libba Bray

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

~ William Shakespeare

Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.

~ Katherine Rundell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

~ Bertrand Russell

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

~ Isaac Asimov

Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self.Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.

~ Vera Nazarian