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Thinking Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music…
- I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having…
- Somebody who had read Lila asked me, ‘Why do you write about the problem of loneliness?’ I said: ‘It’s not a problem. It’s a condition.…
- Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate…
- Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, "Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by…
- People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it,…
- I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think…
- I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when…
- I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will…
- I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.
- To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I…
- When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell…
- Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage…
- I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any…
- And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.
- When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So…
- To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we…
More Thinking Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- 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
- I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I… — J. J. Abrams
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams