Quotes on Thinking

Always keeping in mind that you become what you think about, be very careful about any thoughts you harbor that involve doubt.

When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

Read less, study less, but think more

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.

Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.

If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

A successful work of art is not one which resolves objective contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

I think that nonviolence is one way of saying that there are other ways to solve problems, not only through weapons and war. Nonviolence also means the recognition that the person on one side of the trench and the person on the other side of the trench are both human beings, with the same faculties. At some point they have to begin to understand one another.

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

Sometimes all you need in love is to make each other happy, to make each other laugh. So long as you can still do that ten years down the line then I think you're gold. Never let the laughter slip from your relationship.

In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable.

I lie in an early bed thinking late thoughts, waiting for the black to replace my blue. I do not struggle in your web because it was my aim to get caught. But daddy long legs I feel that I'm finally growing weary of waiting to be consumed by you.

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.