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The part of thinking that’s easy to handle is the part that works by analogy with speech. Thinking in words, speaking our thoughts internally, projects an auditorium inside our skulls. Dark or bright, a shadow theater or a stage scorched by klieg lights, here we try out voices, including the voice we have settled on as the familiar sound of our identity, although it may not be what other people hear when we speak aloud. But that is the topmost of the linguistic processes going on in the mind. Beneath the auditorium runs a continuous river of thought that not only is soundless but is not ordered so it can be spoken. For obvious reasons, describing it is difficult. If I dip experimentally into the wordless flow, and then try to recall the sensations of it, I have the impression of a state in which grammar is present – for when I think like this I am certainly construing lucid relationships between different kinds of meaning, and making sense of the world by distinguishing between (for a start) objects and actions – but thought there are so to speak nounlike and verblike concentrations in the flow, I do not solidify them, I do not break them off into word-sized units. Are there pictures? Yes, but I am not watching a slide show, the images do not come in units either. Sometimes there’s a visual turbulence – rapid, tumbling, propelled – that doesn’t resolve into anything like the outlines of separate images. Sometimes one image, like a key, will hold steady while a whole train of wordless thoughts flows from its start to its finish. A mountain. A closed box. A rusty hinge.
— Francis Spufford, The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
Simplicity is complex. It's never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.
— Richie Norton
Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude.
— Marty Rubin
.be happy now, not when..
— Boris Kovalík
.it's a long road when you're on your own ,but there's no better teacher..
— Boris Kovalík
Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered in mist, knows that he must lay himself down and die before morning comes, stole upon him, paling the colour of his eyes, giving him, even in the two minutes of his turn on the terrace, the bleached look of withered old age. Yet he would not die lying down; he would find some crag of rock, and there, his eyes fixed on the storm, trying to the end to pierce the darkness, he would die standing. He would never reach R.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Nothing great ever happens from thinking small.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The mouth tastes food, the heart tastes words.
— Hmong Proverb
.you can have little and be rich..
— Boris Kovalík
Think big.Dream great dreams.Take action to realize your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I think my thinking with my heartI act with my thinking from my heartbut I'm just a human being with a heart and not a rational thinker
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
You think that if you blame, you will then be free of those problems, but blame cements you to your problems.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the comfort of others.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Beware! Success is not what you think it is. It's a trap.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you feel trapped quit thinking about the trap and start thinking about your value. Life favors value. Value is your way out.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
All of the great mastermind thinkers throughout history have known that we become our thoughts.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
All problems begin when we start worrying what others think of us.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Negative self-talk and negative affirmation can keep you anchored in old thought patterns and identities.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
So many of our problems begin when we start worrying what others think of us.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You are only plagued with stress in moments of conflict because you are arrogant, and believe others are transgressing by having unfavorable thoughts about you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant
—  both victim and aggressor.
I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.
— Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone
Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.
— Aaron Swartz
But thinking never took away tears. Only time did.
— Allan Folsom, The Day After Tomorrow
Hard to remember these days that there was a time you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can be Michiko Kakutani.
— Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm
If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem.
— Steve Goodier
I can’t help but think,’ Park would say during taekwando. ‘I can’t turn off my brain.
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
There is a lot to do in life than to get bored with.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
For what reasons would you waste your time on earth?
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?
In the face of every type of pain, we tend to think that life will never be the same, but guess what, it was never going to be the same anyway.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
As students grow more and more accustomed to assuming materialism and naturalism in their academic work, the concept of creation by God gradually tends to become less real to them. It is not so much that any single finding undermines their faith; rather, the day-to-day practice of thinking in naturalistic terms about academic subjects makes it awkward to think differently when it comes to religion.
— Phillip E. Johnson, An Easy-to-Understand Guide for Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds
My Opinion Is Just Opinion
— Sushil Singh, System dynamics: a practical approach for managerial problems
When you think about the wasted time, you waste your time again.
— Steven Shaw
The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing.
— Erica Lorraine Scheidt, Uses for Boys
Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don't talk.
— Nicholas Nassim Taleb
Lightly, lightly, very lightly,A wind passes very lightlyAnd goes away, always very lightly.And I don’t know what I thinkAnd I don’t want to know.
— Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
People stop thinking when they cease to read.
— Denis Diderot
Decision Without Thinking is Like a Body Without Head...
— Israt Ali
...people don't think in chu
— Robert Noyce, The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
Ragging at its most harmless is embarrassing and silly, but at its worst, it attempts to prevent individual students from independent thinking, attempts, in fact, to eradicate freewill
— Debalina Haldar, The Female Ward
If you change your way of thinking and being, you will change your way of seeing.
— Tanya Masse
The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.
— John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious th
— Fritz Zwicky
Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.
— Raheel Farooq
We still can't see you!" groaned Alice."How do we fix that?" asked Melanie. "I don't know...think visible thoughts," said Colleen."Think visible thoughts?" yelled Melanie. "Actually, that might work. Do it Izzy,
— Katie Mattie, M.A.J.I.C. and the Oracle at Delphi
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 thinking.
— -A. A. Milne
Whether something is wonderful or horrible, the most harmful thought we can think is “Will this last forever?
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract.
— Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions
when you are doubt with someone on how they feel don't pretend that you know what they were thinking, never assume yourself as you know how they feel when you really not at their shoes at all.
— Jinnul Jr.
Your Results will only change when you change your mindset, thinking and actions.
— Tony Dovale
There is a big difference between a tree and a wood! There is a big difference between a thinking society and an unthinking society!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The age measured from the date of birth is just a number, The mental age always makes the difference
— Ramy El-Mahdy
Thinking is human nature and the connection to spiritual dimensions
— Vasilios Karpos
When you start thinking, you will lose your contact with the crowds!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
He often came back ‘all thinky’ from work.
— Sara Sheridan, Brighton Belle
Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.
— John Brockman
Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.
— Tim Fargo
That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
He pushed his two feet together and shot his right arm in the air before clicking his two heels together and saying in a deep and clear voice as possible the words he said every time he left a soldiers presence. 'Heil Hitler,' he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, 'Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon'.
— John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it, or you're up to something.
— Saleem Sharma
The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
— Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
I tried to think outside the box but couldn't open the lid.
— Alan Dapre
Sustained negative flashbacks can stir a heart attack.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
…Oh dear, I sometimes think…whatever would I do if anything happened…But thinking's no good, is it, madam? Thinking won't help. When I find myself doing that, I say to myself, "come along, Ellen! Stop it this moment, my girl! Stop that silly thinking…!
— Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party and Other Stories
I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the assistance of my senses. That there are immaterial and intelligent substances I do not at all doubt; but that it is impossible for God to communicate the faculty of thinking to matter, I doubt very much. I revere the Eternal Power, to which it would ill become me to prescribe bounds. I affirm nothing, and am contented to believe that many things are possible than are usually thought so".
— Voltaire
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.
— Elvin C. Stakman
Miss Taylor says kids that are colored can't go to my school cause they're not smart enough." I come round the counter then. Lift her chin up and smooth back her funny-looking hair. "You think I'm dumb?" "No," she whispers hard, like she means it so much. She look sorry she said it. "What that tell you about Miss Taylor, then?" She blink, like she listening good. "Means Miss Taylor ain't right all the time," I say. She hug me around my neck, say, "You're righter than Miss Taylor." I tear up then. My cup is spilling over. Those is new words to me.
— Kathyrn Stockett
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole.
— Fritz Zwicky
I think sometimes I think too damn much. I worry about this and that and everything else and then I wake up and four more years have slipped right out the back door.
— Kris Radish, Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral
Our lives can hold just so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.
— Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy Was a Junior
If you think everybody hates you, then your ignorance is beyond the limit, because there's a loving heart somewhere longing to see your face.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Busyness chokes deep thinking.
— Todd Stocker, Refined: Turning Pain Into Purpose
The pondering heart is a thankful heart.
— Todd Stocker
Gil has put his book down and is gazing at something inside his head.
— Meg Rosoff, Picture Me Gone
If everyone could learn how to read books properly and how to use them as effective tools for daily living, the facilities of colleges could easily go out of existence without any loss to society.' -From a speech by the president of Mount Holyoke College, as reported in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, May 13, 1938
— Francis Beauchesne Thornton, How to Improve Your Personality by Reading
There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Or was Chris thinking, as I was, that if we went tothe police and told our story, our faces would be splashed on the frontpages of every newspaper in the country? Would the glare of publicitymake up for what we'd lose? Our privacy-our need to stay together?Could we lose each other just to get even?
— V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible.
— Sam Harris
It faintly irritated him that Zaphod had to impose some ludicrous fantasy on to the scene to make it work for him. All this Margrathea nonsense seemed juvenile. Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions.
— Zadie Smith
Someday I'll understand more of these things. At the moment I just have to think them through. Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google.
— Meg Rosoff, Picture Me Gone
Man with right thinking is awake and can see everything
—  man with wrong thinking is asleep and can see nothing!
Thinking is an act of creating sunshine! The more we think, the more our way will be illuminated!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Look, I say. You can't just let your thoughts float around in the ether and hope eventually they'll connect with something. It's absurd.No, it's not, Gil says. Lots of good things happen that way. Penicillin. Teflon. Smart dust. Something happens that you weren't expecting and it shifts the outcome completely. You have to be open to it. When I open my brain, I tell him, things bounce around and fall out. They don't connect with anything. Maybe I haven't got enough points of reference stored up yet.You're young, he says, that's probably it. When I let my thoughts float around, I trust that they'll latch on to something useful in the end or make an association I wouldn't necessarily have predicted. I'm trusting that they'll find the right thought to complete, all by themselves. The right bit of fact to ping. You have to trust your brain sometimes.
— Meg Rosoff, Picture Me Gone
You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and actupon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking andsubsequent actions.
— Adlin Sinclair
I like to think of innovation as upgrading your current self. This upgrade helps you to more effectively deal with changes happening around you and to be able to think in a more complex manner than before.
— Daniel Willey
Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.
— Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Isn't it amazing that we’ll cause ourselves more pain by thinking about, and avoiding something we’re afraid of, or something we know we must deal with, but don't want to face? The best thing you can do is just do it, just face the fear and get it over with. How do you get the courage? You create your courage by just taking action…
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
Don't be an escort to people on their way to success, for it is equally as if you're a sign post, leading the way, and rusting at the end.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Traditional ways to deal with information--reading, listening, writing, talking--are painfully slow in comparison to "viewing the big picture." Those who survive information overload will be those who search for information with broadband thinking but apply it with a single-minded focus.
— Kathryn Alesandrini, Survive Information Overload: The 7 Best Ways to Manage Your Workload by Seeing the Big Picture
Most of the people will try to prove your right ideas as wrong, so share your ideas carefully or not at all.
— Amit Kalantri
I over analyze situations because Im scared of what may happen if I'm not prepared for it.
— Turcois Ominek
Go. Think. Turn black into white.Night into day. I am tired of thinking.I know where it will lead me and I don’tWant to be there.Go love. Do your thinking.
— Walter Dean Myers, Street Love
When they are all thinking alike, they aren't thinking at all.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Wasn't it what her father always warned her about? Don't jump off a bridge because a cute guy tells you to?
— Joannah Miley, The Immortal Game
Let me thinkThinking is all I haveIf wisdom is a pretenseThen let me pretend to be wise
— Walter Dean Myers, Street Love
Most Girls think that the every boy they don't like is not good but they didn't see the inner soul of them.
— Udayveer Singh
To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
True thinking brings a good life!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Two percent of the people think
—  three percent of the people think they think
Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason.
— James Hervey Johnson
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
— Joseph Joubert
If God's love encompasses the whole world and if everyone who does not believe in him will perish, then surely this question needs to be asked: When, after two thousand years, does God's plan kick in for the billion people he 'so loves' in China? Or for the 840 million in India? Or the millions in Japan, Afghanistan, Siberia, Egypt, Burma ·.. and on and on?Why would a God who 'so loved the world' reveal his message only to a tiny minority of the people on earth, leaving the majority in ignorance? Is it possible to believe that the Father of all Mankind would select as his Chosen People a small Middle Eastern nation, Israel, reveal His will exclusively to them, fight alongside them in their battles to survive, and only after their failure to reach out to any other group, update His plan for the world's salvation by sending His 'only begotten son,' not to the world but, once again, exclusively to Israel?
— Charles Templeton, Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith
I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.
— Steve Wozniak
Your opinion of your mental capacity may be great, but if your idea of intelligence is crude, your intelligence-producing thought will also be crude, and can produce only crude intelligence. It is therefore evident that to simply think that you are brilliant will not produce brilliancy, unless your understanding of brilliancy is made larger, higher and finer. …. When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.
— Christian D. Larson
To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Perhaps you still think you ought to think out beforehand and know what you ought to do. To that there is only one answer. You can only know and think about it by actually doing it. You can only learn what obedience is by obeying. It is no use asking questions
—  for it is only through obedience that you come to learn the truth.
Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.
— Kedar Joshi, Superultramodern Science And Philosophy
The rest of the time, I don't do so much thinkin'. 'Cuz if I did, I'd go running back to where things is simple. You see?
— Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law
I was thinking...""We know," Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker
— Davis Bunn, Unlimited
What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.
— Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates
A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.
— Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.
— Plato, Euthyphro
Life can be frustrating sometimes. Take a nap, exercise, meditate or do whatever it takes to 'reboot' your thinking. Happiness is just a thought away!
— Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human
Sunshine is helpful for thinking. It warms up the brain cells.
— Shannon Wiersbitzky, The Summer of Hammers and Angels
I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?
— Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I'm afraid. Critical thinking has become a sadly rare skill these days.
— Rachel Caine, Bite Club
But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.
— Robert Graves, The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Amended and Enlarged Edition
A tapping foot isn’t the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I just like the idea of looking back at my life and feeling like I made different choices than everyone else, you know? Most people are inherently boring if you really dig deep. They don't want much, they don't veer from their chosen path, and they're generally scared of change. I don't know, at least that's how my grandfather tells it. I don't want to be like fifty and realize that I was one of those people who didn't bother to think outside the box.
— Margaux Froley, Escape Theory
The master of thinking is like a master of sword! He can easily win any fight with a high art and a great elegance!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Put no limit to your thinking or you can never go far and never find the truth!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Think, my friend, think millions of things! Thinking is the Art of God!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.
— Hunter S. Thompson, Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that literary criticism must focus on paper and bookbinding, ink and its chemistry, page sizes and margin widths, typefaces and paragraph lengths, and so forth.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop
No, no - I think about thinking
— Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop
People don't think when they're enjoying themselves. Thinking is a sign of disturbance.
— Marty Rubin
But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
Now I know without a shadow of doubt that you can't chase away those images, let alone the visible holes that burrow deep down inside. You can't chase away the reverberations or the memories that stir as night falls or in the early hours. You can't chase away echoing screams, still less echoing silence
— Delphine de Vigan, No and Me
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
— Gretel Ehrlich
I'm not a robot. I'm a freak of the universe ... a thinking animal ... and I'm trying to see my way clear through this morass.
— Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
I want a big breakfast," said Fuchsia at last. "I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.
— Mervyn Peake, The Gormenghast Novels
Thinking outside the box' is ridiculous nonsense, since whatever you can do in a 'box' or closed environment is not 'thinking'. If I 'think' about a problem but limit my thoughts to certain dimensions - then i am not thinking at all, because thinking implies that one at least tries to take all relevant factors into consideration, and as there's usually no way to tell which factors are and which are not relevant restricted thought is not 'thinking' and so 'thinking outside the box' is simply a eufemism for 'let's start to think', but the metafor implies a hidden desire to return to conformity immediately.
— Martijn Benders
The one and only true freedom we ALL possess is what we think
—  and our intentions govern what we think.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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
I Don't use common sense i use senses that's way more significant than common !!
— jojo1980
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, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
Good, don't think. Thinking is highly overrated.
— Mary Jane Auch, One Plus One Equals Blue
My thoughts are really all I think about.
— Peter Davis, Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!
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, The Winnowing Season
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
— Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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 Dark Half
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, Islam and the Destiny of Man
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, The Scorpio Races
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, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
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.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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, Septem Sermones ad Mortuos
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, Steel's Edge
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, Sceptical Essays
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, Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
A turmoil of winds rushed around him, spiraling up in to the air: he was thinking.
— Heather     James, Fire
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, The Book of Everything
There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
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, Naked Lunch
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, Washington Square
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.
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, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
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, Playing to Win
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, What Would Joey Do?
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, Reflections
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.
— John Piper, Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
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, Tom Brown's Schooldays
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
— Harper Lee
Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.
— Dan Millman, The Four Purposes of Life: Finding Meaning and Direction in a Changing World
I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.”“Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law
Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges. Legally your researchers are free, but they are conditioned by the fashion of the day.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.
— George Eliot, Silas Marner
All what is existing already existed. We are together for a while pondering in agile world.
— Santosh Kalwar
I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate.
— Frederick Douglass
We naturally think from our own perspective, from a point of view which tends to privilege our position. Fairness implies the treating of all relevant viewpoints alike without reference to one's own feelings or interests. Because we tend to be biased in favor of our own viewpoint, it is important to keep the standard of fairness at the forefront of our thinking. This is especially important when the situation may call on us to see things we don't want to see, or give something up that we want to hold onto.
— Linda Elder, The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking: Concepts and Tools
Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Thinking is the toughest kind of work which is why so many people avoid it.
— Orrin Woodward
There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.
— Orrin Woodward
A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable, and, as it were, independent. He can only be saved by will or faith. The moment his mere reason moves, it moves in the old circular rut; he will go round and round his logical circle.
— G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
…the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.
— Alan Jacobs
Be transparent like glass, be flexible like water, and be attractive like a magnet.
— Debasish Mridha
When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.
— Elvis Presley
I already explained this. I don’t like you. True, I don’t like most people, but I especially dislike you. I could start my own religion based on how much I dislike you.
— G.A. Aiken, What a Dragon Should Know
When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.
— Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
— Booker T. Washington
Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.
— Madeleine L'Engle
To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.
— Cecily von Ziegesar, You Know You Love Me
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
— Erich Fromm, Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics
Hate looks just like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into the semblance of something too passive to punch.
— Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
Hate is a bottomless cup
—  I will pour and pour
She looks at me, square in the eye. Taking aim. And then she pulls the trigger. “Because I hated you.”The wind, the noise, it all just goes quiet for a second, and I’m left with a dull ringing in my ear, like after a show, like after a heart monitor goes to flatline.“Hated me? W
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
I can't take it anymore. The waiting. The wanting. Something inside me snaps. I hate myself. I hate that I have to deal with this. I hate my life. And I hate how I can't count on anyone to be completely there when I need them, exactly the way I need them to be.
— Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You
if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.
— Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl
hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!
— Eric Jerome Dickey, Liar's Game
To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.
— Lauren DeStefano, Fever
I hate clowns. I've mentioned that, right?
— D.J. MacHale
If you can just stop loving her then you never really loved her at all. Love doesn't work that way. If you ever truly love someone, then it never goes away. It can become something else. There are all different sorts of love. It can even become hate- a thin line and all that- and, really, hate is just another kind of caring.
— Blakney Francis, Someone I Used to Know
I don't understand my feelings. I really don't. I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I'd like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows.
— Sam Shepard, Fool for Love
How sad. How frightening. To be filled with so much hate that you could not even rejoice in the healing of a child...How did anyone ever come to that point?
— Stephenie Meyer, The Host
Hatred is self-punishment. Do you think they're feeling bad because you hate them?
— Michelle Cohen Corasanti, The Almond Tree
Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr.Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult think in the world to shake off.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade
— Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
As long as you draw breath anywhere -here or ten thousands miles from here- I will love you. I can't help loving you, so I choose to hate you...to make my love bearable.
— Rick Yancey, The Curse of the Wendigo
I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.
— Anaïs Nin
If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people." "A zillion?" "Even a zillion. A little hatred goes a long, long way. It grows and grows. And it's hungry.""Like Cimmamum?""Even hungrier. You keep feeding it more and more people, and the more it gets, the more it wants. It's never satisfied. And pretty soon it squeezes all the love out of your heart"--I pointed to her heart; she looked down at her chest--"and all you'll have left is a hateful heart.
— Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl
I have so much hate that it has turned into love.
— Margaret Cho, I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight
People who are filled with hate don't know how to handle love.
— P.C. Cast
Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn't through love, because love is hard, It makes demands. Hate is simple. So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that's easier than trying to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. The second thing that happens is that we seek out facts that confirm what we want to believe - comforting facts, ones that permit life to go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy.
— Fredrik Backman, Beartown
I didn't know it was possible to simultaneously hate and ache for someone.
— Stephanie Perkins
I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me: I became rancorous. I was gloomy--other children were merry and talkative. I felt myself superior to them--but was considered inferior: I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world--none understood me: and I learned to hate.
— Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
I'm running on hate.
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?
— Alan Moore, Batman: The Killing Joke
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.
— Jenny Han, Fire with Fire
We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.
— Claudia Gray, Afterlife
Hate is often an obverse form of love.You hate someone whom you really wish to love but whom you cannot love.
— Sri Chinmoy
You can’t keep messing me around like this. It’s been going on too long. I can’t take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You’re like a disease to me.
— Sam Shepard, Fool for Love