Thinking Quotes

58012 Thinking quotes by 15869 unique authors

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think! — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And… — Franklin P. Adams
I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world. — Edward Kennedy
Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which they… — Walter Pater
The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have… — Hans Zimmer
It's funny. I'm attracted to things that don't have any impact on life. People say I've done a great thing for women. I don't think… — Joan Benoit
In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished… — James E. Faust
...The God I know is one that promotes peace and freedom. But I get great sustenance from my personal relationship. That doesn't make me think… — George W. Bush
I wouldn't pick a judge who said that the Pledge of Allegiance couldn't be said in a school because it had the words 'under God''… — George W. Bush
I think it's important to promote a culture of life. I think a hospitable society is a society where every being counts and every person… — George W. Bush
I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life. I also think we ought… — George W. Bush
I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. I proposed a constitutional amendment. The reason… — George W. Bush
Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His… — Thomas Jefferson
I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution; because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for… — Jonas Salk
It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike. — Robert Green Ingersoll
How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ? — Dan Barker
Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write. — Finley Peter Dunne
To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of… — Dan Barker
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. — Seneca the Younger
Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few. — John Hay
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many… — Alan Turing
The less you think, the more you believe. — Richard Dawkins
It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH... — John Malkovich
The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of… — William Hazlitt
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and… — Virginia Woolf

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