Quotes About Thinking

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

Proof seduces them. One of the greatest pleasures of the human race is thinking.

Das Denken gehört zu den größten Vergnügungen der menschlichen Rasse.

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That's if you want to teach them to think.

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

That is one reason for thinking hard—in order to think better. And the harder you think, the more will your thinking instrument improve.

Not out of right practice comes right thinking, but out of right thinking comes right practice. It matters enormously what you think. If you think falsely, you will act mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your thinking.

Education should teach children how to think, but should never tell them what to think. It should sharpen and polish the instruments of thought, but should not fix them into a machine made to cut out one special shape.

But Momma, winning that pageant wasn't your life -- it was only a day in your life -- that's all. Mrs. Odell says life is what we make it. Maybe you'd be happier if you adjusted your thinking a bit.

Memories of past events, traumas, and mistakes live on in our minds and affect how we react to our circumstances today. It may not be a fear of dogs; it may be something more horrific—but a memory can hold you captive, influencing your thinking and the decisions you make.

A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.

The 1857 Supreme Court decision of Dred Scott vs Sanford continued to influence judiciary thinking, and he doubted its ramifications would be banished in his lifetime, if ever.

The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking.

In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you.

Or, said another way, Native Americans, unlike the people of more modern cultures, don't believe talking is the same thing as thinking.

I smile at the phone, wishing Reggie could see me. 'You're alright then, luv? No dramas?' 'Not a one.' I reach the kitchen. 'Thanks for thinking about me.' 'Gotta look after my girl. Only one I got.' My smile gets even bigger.

I say I love writing, but really it is thinking I love- that rush of thoughts- new connections in the brain being made. And it comes out of the blue. In such moments: I feel such love of the world, love of thinking...

We cannot use the political spirit in one situation and think we can be free from it in another. The political spirit uses the fear of man and manipulation to get people to support a particular way of thinking.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.

Magical thinking underlies the I-don't-want-to-know-how-it-works-I-just-want-it-to-work view of technology. That may be a viable attitude for business people who don't want to take the time to understand their desktop computers, but it makes for a lethal combination when geeks and suits try to build businesses together.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.