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Thinking Quotes by Alain de Botton
- We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to…
- I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative…
- There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms…
- When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at…
- Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
- I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to…
- Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.
- For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care.
- Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and…
- There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about…
- As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those…
- What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
- The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having…
- Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost…
- Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just…
- There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's…
- According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone…
- .. if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily what they truly…
- The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.
- 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…
- The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.
- Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
- It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.
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- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
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- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I don't think I have a signature. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
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- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams