Thinking Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I think most people are more important than their opinions.

— Jorge Luis Borges

There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

— Jorge Luis Borges

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I wonder if I have woven through dreams the sexual strife. I don't think so. But after all, my business is to…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose…

— Jorge Luis Borges

In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I try to avoid purple patches, fine writing, all that kind of thing... because I think they're a mistake. And then sometimes…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer - even as Wells thought about him -…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I think of myself primarily as a reader, then also a writer, but that's more or less irrelevant. I think I'm a…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The two important facts I should say, are emotion, and then words arising from emotion. I don't think you can write in…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I…

— Jorge Luis Borges

People think that I've committed myself to idealism, to solipsism, or to doctrines of the cabala, because I've used them in my…

— Jorge Luis Borges

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Kafka had the sense of guilt. I don't think I have because I don't believe in free will. Because what I have…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have…

— Jorge Luis Borges

To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we're writing, something…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I suppose every poet has his own private mythology. Maybe he's unaware of it. People tell me that I have evolved a…

— Jorge Luis Borges

We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I…

— Jorge Luis Borges

When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Had I to give advice to writers (and I do not think they need it, because everyone has to find out things…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I think of myself as being an ethical man, but I don't try to teach ethics. I have no message. I know…

— Jorge Luis Borges

You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I don't think I can really believe in doomsday; I could hardly believe in rewards and punishments, in heaven or hell. As…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality…

— Jorge Luis Borges

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop…

— Jorge Luis Borges