Quotes on Thinking

People must not attempt to impose their own 'truth' on others. The right to profess the truth must always be upheld, but not in a way that involves contempt for those who may think differently. Truth imposes itself solely by the force of its own truth.

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.

We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

As long as I think I 'should' do it, I'll resist it, even if I want very much to do it.

I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.

The cause of anger lies in our thinking - in thoughts of blame and judgment.

Always listen to what people need rather than what they are thinking about us.

The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.

In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.

Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.

The people who did this act on America, and who may be planning further acts, are evil people. They don't represent an ideology, they don't represent a legitimate political group of people. They're flat evil. That's all they can think about, is evil. And as a nation of good folks, we're going to hunt them down, and we're going to find them, and we will bring them to justice.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.