Quotes on Thinking

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.

I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.

High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

A human being is a deciding being.

I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.