Quotes About Thinking

If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working

pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.

You're very sure of your facts,' he said at last, 'I couldn't trust the thinking of a man who takes the Universe — if there is one — for granted.' ... 'I only decide about my Universe,' continued the man quietly. 'My Universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

I say 'Uhmm...' a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it's a CPU word. It means you're assembling data in your head - spooling.

How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

Poirot said placidly, "One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – " he tapped his egg-shaped head – "this, that functions!

That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking.

Use your eyes. Use your ears. Use your brains---if you've got any. And, if necessary--act.

It is a theory of mine," I said, warming to my theme, "that we owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness?either enforced or voluntary. The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself?and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

Being in love has a very bad effect on men - it seems to addle their wits.

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.

Bundle frowned. This business of the clocks was curious. She must get hold of Bill Eversleigh. He had been there, she knew. To think was to act with Bundle. She got up and went over to the writing desk. It was an inlaid affair with a lid that rolled back. Bundle sat down at it, pulled a sheet of notepaper towards her and wrote. Dear Bill,—

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

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. A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

He was tired because he had been thinking. Thinking was always exhausting.

I mean, I think people are so madly interesting. Don't you? MOLLIE. Well, I suppose some are and (Turning to CHRISTOPHER) some are not. CHRISTOPHER. No, I don't agree. They're all interesting, because you never really know what anyone is like—or what they are really thinking.

Think, my friend," said Poirot's voice encouragingly. "Arrange your ideas. Be methodical. Be orderly. There is the secret of success.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.

I had no idea what role these popular arts of storytelling and singing would play in my future; I just enjoyed them without thinking about it.

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything. But it's bullsh**t! Reflection is crucial.

Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own," said Arkin, who has been acting since the 1960s and won the supporting actor Oscar for "Little Miss Sunshine." "Ben treats the audience like adults. He doesn't shove you into endless close-ups, and the music doesn't tell you what's going to happen next, which is something I hate in American movies.