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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer Being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n; Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall.
— Alexander Pope
In silence alone does a man's truth bind itself together and strike root.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Why had she imagined he was attractive? He was absolutely the biggest, most complete and utter jackass she'd ever had the bad fortune to meet.
— Christina Dodd, The Barefoot Princess
The greatest riddle of all.... the riddle of man! The complex mystery of the universal human being as he stands wihtin the threshold of universal laws. This is the most fascinating puzzle!
— Adriana Koulias, Temple of the Grail
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
— Herman Melville
If "Frailty, thy name is woman", Frailty must be a man named as 'woman
— Munia Khan
Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.
— Margaret Way, Strategy for Marriage
At the center of a man's purpose rests the hunger for competition, war, chaos, and calmness. You take it away, there is nothing but a self-reflection of stagnation for him.
— Lionel Suggs
Every woman needs a man.
— Missy Lyons, Alien Promise
The inner man is the periphery of our consciousness. It is also the inner man that takes care of and protects the inner woman for example through putting up creative boundaries. The meeting between a man and a woman on the outer plane creates a relationship. This relationship is not a conflict, but they complement each other. The outer meeting between a man and a woman also creates integration between our own inner male and female sides.
— Swami Dhyan Giten, The Silent Whisperings of the Heart - An Introduction to Giten's Approach to Life
When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.
— Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
— Christopher Morley
However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken.Infallibility is a sin in any man.All laws can be broken and are.Often.
— Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River
Man is to be understood only in his relation to God.
— C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when the word of God is infected by the hand of man, that is, written down, it is tainted.
— Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River
You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
(On having being just proposed to)'Have you been thinking of this for long?' she managed jerkily, praying for the shock to recede so that she could behave a little more normally.'Let's say it crept up on me,' he suggested lightly.That didn't sound very romantic. Muggers crept up on you; so did old age.
— Lynne Graham, Tempestuous Reunion
No weekends for the gods now. Warsflicker, earth licks its open sores,fresh breakage, fresh promotions, chanceassassinations, no advance.Only man thinning out his own kindsounds through the Sabbath noon, the blindswipe of the pruner and his knifebusy about the tree of life...Pity the planet, all joy gonefrom this sweet volcanic cone;peace to our children when they fallin small war on the heels of smallwar - until the end of timeto police th eearth, a ghostorbiting forever lostin our monotonous sublime.
— Robert Lowell
Although Jesus Christ was Himself the Creative Deity, by whom all things were made, as man He humbled Himself--set aside His divine prerogatives and walked this earth as man -- a perfect demonstration of what God intended man to be--the whole personality yielded to and occupied by God for Himself.
— W. Ian Thomas
It was a boyish thing to do and it caught the hesitating girl in the depths of her heart, as the boy element in a man ever appeals to a motherly woman.
— Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost
Hell hath no fury like a man embarrassed by a woman
— J.R. Rain, Vampire Dawn
Ax-man. Cardboard isn’t one of the major food groups, remember?”-Marco
— Katherine Applegate
If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am.
— Michael Robotham, Suspect
The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes.
— Lynne McTaggart, The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
She had the habit of making up virtuous qualities in a man to support her attraction.
— Alyssa Kress, Marriage by Mistake
O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly.
— A Gentleman
While a creator does and must worship Man (which means his own highest potentiality; which is his natural self-reverence), he must not make the mistake of thinking that this means the necessity to worship Mankind (as a collective). These are two entirely different conceptions, with entirely - (immensely and diametrically opposed) - different consequences.
— Ayn Rand
That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration
— Joseph Warren
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Let the love grow. Your mistake would be to rush it. Never allowing the seeds you've planted to grow, is all you'll be doing. Everything takes time. Nothing blooms overnight. If you want that man to stay in your life you must be the woman in the relationship. Men if you want that woman to stay, you must be the man in the relationship. Nothing just comes to you. If you want it, you have to try and even sacrifice. No pain, no gain. That's life, whether you accept it or not it's going to always stay the same.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
— Barry Lyga, I Hunt Killers
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.
— Niall Ferguson
And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World: Volume I
It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
— William Faulkner, Light in August
The classical anthropological question, What is man?—"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"—is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence with a chapter on Physical Anthropology and then forget the whole topic and go on to Culture.
— Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd
A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.
— Jack Kerouac
Who can give a man this, his own name?
— George MacDonald
Never send a Man in to do a Donkey's job
— Josh Stern
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, Fahrenheit 451
Five percent of the people think
—  ten percent of the people think they think
Stop thinking, and end your problems.
— Lao Tzu
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
— Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
— Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
— Voltaire, Traité sur la tolérance, à l'occasion de la mort de Jean Calas
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thin
— A.A. Milne
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, Les Misérables
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, Divergent
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, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
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, The End
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, What a Dragon Should Know
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 Bell Jar
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, Seven Up
He who thinks little errs much…
— Leonardo da Vinci
Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening
— Terence McKenna
I—I didn't think—""That," said Professor McGonagall, "is obvious.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
— Lloyd Alexander, The Iron Ring
The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
— Don Marquis
...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.
— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
...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, 1Q84
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, The Life of the Mind
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, Pride and Prejudice
It's nice to have things to look forward to.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.
— Anna Godbersen, The Luxe
We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.
— Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
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, Eat, Pray, Love
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, Awaken
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, The Big Sleep
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, The Stand
We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)
— Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
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
We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.
— Chuck Palahniuk
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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, My Hope Is Found
I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.
— Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.
— William Shakespeare
Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.
— Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers
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, Foundation and Empire
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, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Extroverts are more likely to take a quick-and-dirty approach to problem-solving, trading accuracy for speed, making increasing numbers of mistakes as they go, and abandoning ship altogether when the problem seems too difficult or frustrating. Introverts think before they act, digest information thoroughly, stay on task longer, give up less easily, and work more accurately. Introverts and extroverts also direct their attention differently: if you leave them to their own devices, the introverts tend to sit around wondering about things, imagining things, recalling events from their past, and making plans for the future. The extroverts are more likely to focus on what's happening around them. It's as if extroverts are seeing "what is" while their introverted peers are asking "what if.
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to.
— Christopher Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn’t make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness intersect at right angles. And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly. And also, a thing is interesting because of thinking about it and not because of it being new.
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
My dad said to me a few years ago: "There's no harm in thinking." We were talking about Crazy Uncle Albert and whether it was right to use your brain to build weapons.He said, "You can't expect people not to think. Not to know things just because they COULD be bad."I said, "Yeah, but then they built it and a hundred thousand people died."My dad laughed and said there were a lot of steps between the thinking and the doing.Which I know, duh. All I was saying is that when you think of doing something, you don't always know the consequences. For a while people THOUGHT about building the bomb, but nothing happened. In the end it was a lot of different people doing a lot of different things, most of which had nothing to do with the bomb, that did make it happen.I think about that sometimes. Who was the person who had the first thought, the one that started it all?And after they had the thought, what was the first thing they did?I know my uncle never thought, Hey, all this great science- one day I'll use it to kill a whole bunch of people. You just look at his picture; he's not that kind of person.And yet, I guess in a way he sort of is.
— Mariah Fredericks, Head Games
The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.
— Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
weren’t you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside yougoing and coming and often staying all night.)…
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Can you go cazy without knowing you're crazy?
— Laurie Faria Stolarz, Deadly Little Lies
The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.
— John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.
— David Foster Wallace
We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad.
— Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.
— Oliver DeMille, A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century
but I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.
— Michelle Zink, Guardian of the Gate
Owl," said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest--and when I say thinking I mean thinking--you and I must do it.
— A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
Thinking is indispensable on the path to passion for God. Thinking is not an end in itself. Nothing but God himself is finally an end in itself. Thinking is not the goal of life. Thinking can be the ground for boasting. Thinking, without prayer, without the Holy Spirit, without obedience, without love, will puff up and destroy (1 Cor. 8:1).But thinking under the mighty hand of God, thinking soaked in prayer, thinking carried by the Holy Spirit, thinking tethered to the Bible, thinking in pursuit of more reasons to praise and proclaim the glories of God, thinking in the service of love--such thinking is indispensable in a life of fullest praise to God.
— John Piper
...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.
— Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think.
— Edgar Johnson, A Treasury of Satire
I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, "Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that?" The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-six dollars to put in there. All my journals are private, but if you ever got hold of one of them, you wouldn't have to look very far to discover it is worth more than twenty-six dollars
— Jim Rohn
Question authority... Then ignore it! 
— Joseph Barjack
Eternity of struggle is life.
— Shesh Nath Vernwal
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
— Dan Chaon, Stay Awake
We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.
— David Brower
It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.
— John Marsden, Darkness, Be My Friend
To think is to be sick...
— Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
No one knows more about the way you think than you do.
— Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit
Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.
— Peter Straub, If You Could See Me Now
Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen.
— Victor Hugo
The more thinking minds, the less sinking world!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
shave you mind with occam's razor everyday
— Paul Grimsley
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
— Clarence Day Jr., This Simian World
If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved
— Friedrich Nietzsche
At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.
— Richard Mitchell
Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech—and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives—he called them enemies!—hidden out of sight somewhere.
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man.
— Anna Godbersen, Envy
...most people are almost blind and they don’t see most things and there is lots of spare capacity in their heads and it is filled with things which aren’t connected and are silly, like, “I’m worried that I might have left the gas cooker on.
— Mark Haddon
It is so important to think for yourself.
— Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do. 
— Herbert M. Shelton
Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...Otherwise you will drown in me.
— Maryum Ahsam
Places are people as well as rocks, trees and buildings. Places are moments in time.
— A.J. Dalton, Empire of the Saviours
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
— Dallas Willard, Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.
— John Piper, Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
— Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
Running cleared the day's cobwebs from my mind and focused my thinking, and gave me time and space to sort out anything that was bothering me, or to detach and think of nothing at all.
— Jeff Horowitz, My First 100 Marathons: 2,260 Miles with an Obsessive Runner
As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.- (1772-1834)
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Almost everything a person thinks is a lie, and an assault against the natural soul.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.
— John Piper, Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
— Albert Einstein
If I didn't know you I would say I don't know you.
— Jaime Cabrera
i go deeper into my head
— Robert Adamson, The Golden Bird: New and selected poems
Where there is little thinking, there is big shaping of the people! ~
— Mehmet Murat ildan
To be perfectly honest, I enjoy thinking dangerously
— Jimmy Henderson
Thinking is like a fountain. Once it gets going at a certain pressure, well, it almost impossible to turn it off. And, my hat! what odd things come up with the water!("Out Of The Deep")
— Walter de la Mare, Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Tabini was at least canny enough in the differences between atevi and human to know that, gut level, he might think he understood - but chances were very good that he wouldn't, couldn't, and never would, unaided by the paidhi, come up with the right forecast of human behavior because he didn't come with the right hardwiring. Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
— C.J. Cherryh, Invader
I used to look at Jinks and marvel at her smooth complexion, but over the years I have come to realise that she has been spared wrinkles by virtue of never having succumbed to heavy thought.
— Sandi Toksvig, The Travels of Lady Bulldog Burton
Thinking is itself, however, an adventure.
— James V. Schall
It might feel, at least to some of us, that our opinions about issues such as abortion and the death penalty are the products of careful deliberation and that our specific moral acts, such as deciding to give to charity or visit a friend in the hospital—or for that matter, deciding to shoplift or shout a racist insult out of a car window—are grounded in conscious decision-making. But this is said to be mistaken. As Jonathan Haidt argues, we are not judges; we are lawyers, making up explanations after the deeds have been done. Reason is impotent. "We celebrate rationality," agrees de Waal, "but when push comes to shove we assign it little weight.
— Paul Bloom, Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves the illusion of understanding, and give a cover to our past actions.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Man can transform his life, when he renewed his thinking.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is worth living but not worth thinking about.
— Marty Rubin
No one answer is ever the answer.
— Ahmed Mostafa
There is no condition so miserable that thinking can't make it worse.
— Marty Rubin
Stay positive. Sometimes you don't even realize you're blocking your own blessings by thinking negatively and holding on to the past. Learn to let go.
— Germany Kent
There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. The majority take the line of least resistance, preferring to have their thinking done for them; they accept ready-made individual, private doctrines as their own and follow them more or less blindly. Every generation looks upon its own creeds as true and permanent and has a mingled smile of pity and contempt for the prejudices of the past. For two hundred or more generations of our historical past this attitude has been repeated two hundred or more times, and unless we are very careful our children will have the same attitude toward us.
— Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity
It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide.
— Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders
Sheep sheep are adorable.Human sheep, not so much.Think for yourself, for flock’s sake.
— Scott Stabile
You won't stress over it unless you care.
— Joyce Rachelle
There is no collective thinking.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Thinking, like other drugs, can be a useful distraction from pain, as long as it's managed and doesn't become an addiction.
— David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine
The more one thinks, the less one sees.
— Marty Rubin
The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness.
— Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
Delusions, carefully implanted, are difficult to correct.
— Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
A lot of what people did and said when they "predicted" things, Morey now realized, was phony: pretending to know things rather than actually knowing things. There were a great many interesting questions in the world to which the only honest answer was, "It's impossible to know for sure".
— Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World
After seeing a movie that dramatizes nuclear war, they worried more about nuclear war; indeed, they felt that it was more likely to happen. The sheer volatility of people's judgement of the odds--their sense of the odds could be changed by two hours in a movie theater--told you something about the reliability of the mechanism that judged those odds.
— Michael Lewis
Stories people told themselves were biased by the availability of the material used to construct them...what people remember about the past, [Kahneman and Tversky] suggested, is likely to warp their judgement of the future. "We often decide that an outcome is extremely unlikely or impossible, because we are unable to imagine any chain of events that could cause it to occur. The defect, often, is in our imagination.
— Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World
You need to be so careful when there is one simple diagnosis that instantly pops into your mind that beautifully explains everything all at once. That's when you need to stop and check your thinking...Beware of the delirious guy in the emergency unit with the long history of alcoholism, because you will say, 'He's just drunk,' and you'll miss the subdural hematoma.
— Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World
Who cares what the Bible means to me? We need to know what it means. That's where I have to allow God to redefine my thinking. He tells us in Romans 12:2 not to be conformed to this world but to be transformed by the renewal of our minds. What always gets me about this verse is he's telling believers we still need to be transformed. It means I have a saved spirit but I still think with a lost brain, and slowly but surely my mind has to be transformed. Such transformation comes but one way - by truth. By his Word.
— Mark Hall, Your Own Jesus: A God Insistent on Making It Personal
The morning sky is a thought of the stars.
— Will Advise
Never express your adverse thinking to any buddy, they will change your every opinion into pessimism.
— Muhammad Riaz
You are shaped by Your thinking. The outcome of your life cannot be better than your pattern of thought
— Benjamin Suulola
There is nothing typical about my profession.’ Suddenly I did not want to talk about it any longer. ‘I don’t want to talk about it any longer.
— Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it.
— James Rozoff
Think beyond the situation, its a facade against your success.
— Stephen Magnus
To get it all done I have to dim my brain, turn it down by notches like the flat-turn knob on a gas lantern, leaving only a nub of flame.
— Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World
…he quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working.
— Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red
In the heat of the moment, rational thinking tends to elude us.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been critically influenced in one's thinking by a teacher, or a faculty, or a book; but the accent these days is so strong on atomistic intellectual independence that to suggest such a thing is, as I have noted, highly inflammatory.
— William F. Buckley Jr., Up From Liberalism
People keep on saying, "Don't Think Much." Is it underrated? You can't be creative enough unless you make a thoughtful process by collaborating your conscience and consciousness
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
Can you look at a flower without thinking?
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.
— Garry Kasparov
When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.
— Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular
The tough mind is sharp and penetrating, breaking through the crust of legends and myths and sifting the true from the false. The tough-minded individual is astute and discerning. He has a strong austere quality that makes for firmness of purpose and solidness of commitment. Who doubts that this toughness is one of man's greatest needs? Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
— Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love
One thinking man in a crowd worth a thousand men!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Some people are wonderful, some wonderless.
— Natasha Tsakos
I have been under the influence- of boggling information over the years.
— Natasha Tsakos
Our thinking makes or breaks our life, we live as we think
— Sunday Adelaja
A life of constant victory is the result of correct thinking
— Sunday Adelaja
Running wild in a field of exclamations, chasing question marks
— Natasha Tsakos
A victorious life is as a result of a correct way of thinking
— Sunday Adelaja
We don’t think, we think we think
— Natasha Tsakos
Freud introduced the unconscious, which in effect dethroned man as the uncontested master of his own rational faculties. Instead , our lives and our decisions, our loves and our hates, are more often the result of forces working elsewhere than in our conscious mind, and we are the dupes of those forces, rather than their master. (...) Indeed, thinking, as Descartes conceived it, accounts for considerably less than half the story of our being in the world.
— Paul C. Vitz, The Self: Beyond the Postmodern Crisis
The difference between ideas and resources is that resources has its limits.
— Santosh Kalwar
To feel everything in every way; to be able to think with the emotions and feel with the mind; not to desire much except with the imagination; to suffer with haughtiness; to see clearly so as to write accurately; to know oneself through diplomacy and dissimulation; to become naturalized as a different person, with all the necessary documents; in short, to use all sensations but only on the inside, peeling them all down to God and then wrapping everything up again and putting it back in the shop window like the sales assistant I can see from here with the small tins of a new brand of shoe polish.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
If you can't tell someone how to think, then you have to learn to manage the environment where they think.
— Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It's an epidemic.
— Tahereh Mafi, Furthermore
People who insist upon dressing casually also want to think casually. And in a fallen world, thinking casually means being wrong more often than not.
— Douglas Wilson, Paideia of God: & Other Essays on Education
Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying speed to a far corner of the night. In the dark hours before sunrise, constellations came apart and reformed and fell in burning streaks.
— Joe Hill, The Fireman
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?.... In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
— George Orwell, 1984
His gaze locked with mine and a slow grin appeared on his face. He didn’t look like he had last night. More like he did every day at school. Worn jeans. A black henley instead of a T-shirt and beat-up sneakers, but goodness, I couldn’t think.Okay. Not true. I could think, but I was thinking things I really had no concept of. I was thinking about those full, slightly curved lips and how they must feel in places...other than my forehead or cheek. I was thinking about his hands and how strong they were and the oddly pleasant calluses on his palms. I was thinking about...about a lot of things—things that now didn’t feel so wrong since he was actually single.Noticing my near-prone position, Ainsley looked over her shoulder. “Oh, my good God almighty,” she murmured. “That’s him?”“Yes,” I whispered. That was so him.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever
mind was simply the operation of the brain, an idea that struck me with force; it startled my naive understanding of the world
— Paul Kalanithi
Believing and investing in yourself is the best way to shift your thinking from a paradigm of excuses to one of solutions.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
The rest of the time, I don't do so much thinkin'. 'Cuz if I did, I'd go runnin' back to where things is simple.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law
Thinking, it seems, is a difficult undertaking RjS
— rassool jibraeel snyman
If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If thinking and reason crack under pressure of emotional convulsions or when commissioned facts are resulting from fibs and fake constructions, truth may be in great peril. ( ”Blame storming”)
— Erik Pevernagie
We would like the truth to be revealed to us by novel signs, not by a sentence, a sentence similar to those which we have constantly repeated to ourselves. The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than another thought. There is no idea that does not carry in itself its possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
— Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive
In lieu of fixating upon details of our life which can lead to sadness or madness, we achieve an enhanced perspective regarding the perplexity haunting our being by thinking abstractedly, a process that allows us to discern the essential principles of life.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I can only meditate when I am walking, when I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.
— Rousseau Jean-Jacques 1712-1778
I have butchered many men. All are innocent and equaled when they are on the table. All are exquisite and grotesque. -Dr. Spencer Black
— E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
every thought that deviates from the officially prescribed and permanently changing line is already suspect, no matter in which field of human activity it occurs. Simply because of their capacity to think, human beings are suspects by definition, and this suspicion cannot be diverted by exemplary behavior, for the human capacity to think is also a capacity to change one's mind.
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
I wish i could feed my soul just like i feed my hunger.
— Futty-fuze
There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind which does not only control the mind, but also the life we live in totality!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
What are we? We are a thinking universe!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You think and it's done, It's a luck not a talent.
— Sohail Umar
Think before you eat.
— Kevin J. Donaldson
Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Hey.” Shane’s hip nudged her chair, and he bent over, putting his mouth very close to her ear.“What are you doing?”“Thinking.”“Stop.”“Stop thinking?”“You’re doing way too much of it. It’ll make you go blind.”She laughed and turned her face toward his. “I think you’re thinking of something else.
— Rachel Caine, Kiss of Death
Moments of thinking are your military moments because they are the moments where you take the opportunity to attack and eliminate your problems!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You have to be able to look objectively at the problem, deflating the emotional part of it.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
Pattern Thinking is a type of problem-solving thinking.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
Using two-dimensional lenses to perceive the multi-faceted world can limit your ability to observe the world more objectively.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
Mechanistic thinking focuses on “what,” and holistic thinking digs into “why.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
The paradox of indecisiveness lies in uncertainty.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future