Quotes and Sayings about Thinking

People spend more time talking than thinking.

As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.

Few people think, but many want to rule.

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

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.

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

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

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.

What we think, we become.

I have always worried about things more than I should.

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

He who thinks too much, will not act.

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

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

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

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

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

We think too much and feel too little.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Do or do not. There is no try.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

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

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

Emotions are most dangerous when silenced.

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

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.

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

I am the first servant of my state.

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

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.

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.

Ich gehe langsam, aber ich gehe nie zurück.

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

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.