Quotes on Thinking

I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And I'd like to have the most enormous library, and I'd like to think that I could read those books forever and forever, and die unlamented, unknown, unsung, unhonored - and packed with information.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing"; - "We accept the love we think we deserve.

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

I can't afford it' shut down your brain. it didn't have to think anymore. besides, it also brings up sadness. a helplessness that leads to despondency and often depression. 'How can I afford it?' opened up the brain. forced it to think and search fro answers. it also opens up possibilities, excitement and dreams and created a stronger mind and dynamic spirit.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.

You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon.

I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.

You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.

Hello!" He said hello and then said, "What are you up to now?" "I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. "I don't think I'd like that," he said. "You might if you tried." "I never have." She licked her lips. "Rain even tastes good." "What do you do, go around trying everything once?" he asked. "Sometimes twice.

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.

I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.