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Thinking Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted.
- Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.
- I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.
- One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute *whazaam*, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as…
- Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape.…
- History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it
- Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the…
- You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know…
- Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.
- Some People think 'coven' is a word for a group of witches, and it's true that's what the dictionary says. But the real word for…
- I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.
- Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there…
- I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
- The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into…
- Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'
- The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you…
- No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about…
- I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity,…
- I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most…
- 'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a…
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