Thinking Quotes

58012 Thinking quotes by 15869 unique authors

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long. — Walt Whitman
I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous… — Harrison Ford
I have been heart broken. You can't breathe, your eyes are pouring a thousand tears a second and you can't foresee going on with love… — Jennifer Love Hewitt
When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych… — Lois Lowry
When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already… — Elizabeth Gilbert
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it. — Oliver Goldsmith
Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart… — Freya Stark
I think it's the wrong way around to say when you get older move to the country. I think when you get older you move… — Elaine Stritch
I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from… — Elaine Stritch
If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling… — Sam Keen
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who commits… — Christopher Reeve
Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to… — Studs Terkel
Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. — Ambrose Bierce
If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and learn… — Morgan Freeman
Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every… — George Johnson
The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure,… — Lewis Thomas
MEMORIES OF MY FAMILY MEETINGS still are a source of strength to me. I remember we'd all get into the car - I forget what… — Jack Handey
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Any river is really the summation of the whole valley. To think of it as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part. — Hal Borland
Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain… — Henri Poincare
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or… — Helen Gahagan Douglas
I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid… — Dennis Wholey
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may… — Eldridge Cleaver
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious. — Jacques Maritain

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