Quotes and Sayings about Thinking

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance

Few people think, but many want to rule.

You do your best thinking when you're not thinking at all.

Mera in Aquaman

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet.

Werner Heisenberg

Progress

Stuff all my problems in that bong and I’m puffing strong
I been locked in my way of thinking now my cuffs are gone

Lloyd Banks - Christian Dior Denim Flow, Album: G.O.O.D. Fridays (by Kanye West)

Marijuana & Weed

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

Ideas

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Anthony Hopkins

What we think, we become.

Buddha

I have always worried about things more than I should.

Rowan Atkinson

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Ideas

He who thinks too much, will not act.

Friedrich Schiller in William Tell

Taking action Self-Confidence

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Oscar Wilde

Patience & Endurance

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Alexander Herzen

Life Taking action

'I don't think...'
'Then you shouldn't talk', said the Hatter.

Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland

Talking

Take your time to think, but when it is time to act, stop thinking and act!

Napoléon Bonaparte

Taking action

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Coco Chanel

Intelligence

We think too much and feel too little.

Charlie Chaplin

Feelings & Emotions

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

David Joseph Schwartz

I stopped thinking the way other people think a long time ago, you gotta think like you think.

Rocky Balboa

Character Self-Confidence

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare in Hamlet

Good & Evil

Cogito, ergo sum. I think; therefore I am.

René Descartes

Latin Phrases

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

Problems Innovation

But feelings are just having a picture on the screen in your head
of what is going to happen tomorrow or next year
or what might have happend instead of what did happen
and if it is a happy picture they smile,
and if it is a sad picture they cry.

Mark Haddon in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Memories Feelings & Emotions

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A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Natalie Portman

Intelligence Men & Women Singles & Dating

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Failures & Mistakes Intelligence

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

Foolishness Intelligence Self-Confidence Doubt

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

Frank Zappa

Mind & Apprehension

What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea! Resilient, highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate.

Cobb in Inception

Thoughts

Even with therapy, our wounds may take a long time to heal. We can't just erase our worst impulses. But maybe we can control them.

Joe Goldberg in You - Season 3 Episode 2

Psychology

Do or do not. There is no try.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Taking action

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Talking

Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games - The Hawthorne Legacy

Ideas

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Character Self-Confidence

Emotions are most dangerous when silenced.

Hwei, the Visionary in League of Legends

Feelings & Emotions

Chess is a game where all different sorts of people can come together, not a game in which people are divided because of their religion or country of origin.

Hikaru Nakamura

Chess

You know how the game of chess is played. Pieces must be sacrificed!

Orochimaru in Naruto

Chess

Love is like a flower; even the most beautiful one dies eventually.

Till Lindemann

Love Flowers

Tress considered herself to be categorically boring. She liked her tea lukewarm, she went to bed on time, she loved her parents, occasionally squabbled with her little brother, and didn't litter. She was fair at needlepoint, and had a talent for baking. But had no other noteworthy skills. She didn't train at fencing in secret, she couldn't talk to animals, she had no hidden royalty or deities in her lineage. Though her great-grandmother Glorf had once reportedly waved at the king.

Brandon Sanderson in Tress of the Emerald Sea

Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer

Sad Quotes

I am the first servant of my state.

Frederick the Great

Sometimes we have to do what’s right, even if your heart aches against it.

Mera in Aquaman

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Bruce Lee

Love Age

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.

Werner Heisenberg

Science Atheism

Ich gehe langsam, aber ich gehe nie zurück.

Abraham Lincoln

Progress

The female Pinocchio, money-hungry hopeless ho
You f*ckin' with my focus, so
Go back to that chump that played the role befo'
Love is like a cancer when you don't let go

Lloyd Banks - Where I'm At, Album: H.F.M. 2 (The Hunger For More 2)

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