Quotes About Thinking

You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.

One must not be negligent in learning. In the Lun Yu it says: "To study and not to think is darkness. To think without study is dangerous."

The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

Twentieth-century philosophy is not unique in its ability to confuse puzzles with problems.

Birds are not difficult to understand. Their behaviour tells me what they are thinking. Generally it runs along the lines of: Is this food? Is this? What about this? This might be food. I am almost certain that this is. Or occasionally: It is raining. I do not like it.

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.

Sam found a chair under Robin's butt and evicted him from it, bringing it over to his pregnant wife."Sorry, I wasn't thinking," Robin apologized. "Thanks," Alyssa said to Robin as she sat down, even as she gave Sam a darkly amused look. "What?" he said. "I was just helping him think.

Now we're in that sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated. But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

What was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me...no competition...best thing that ever happened to you..." "I don't remember that last part," I say, hoping it's too dim in here for the cameras to pick up my blush. "Oh, that's right. That what I was thinking," he says.

Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask. "Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated," he says. "But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss.

Thinking like your prey. . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities.

Pensando como tu presa...es donde encontrarás sus vulnerabilidades

They might. But you're playing on their natural instincts to flee danger. Thinking like your prey . . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities,

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction

Oh, right, I'm supposed to be pregnant, I think. While I'm trying to think what that means and how I should act, maybe throw up or something, Finnick has positioned himself at the edge of the water.

Oh, not now. Now we're in that sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated," he says. "But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

you're playing on their natural instincts to flee danger. Thinking like your prey . . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities,

Do not make the mistake of thinking that the soul is inside you, because if the soul is inside you, you will be outside it.

What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity