Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero...

They don’t like thinking in medical school. They memorize – that’s all they want you to do. You must not think.

If counting is thinking, then the longest I’ve ever thought about any one subject continuously for is 127, 983 seconds. I might have also been in love, though I was too distracted to notice.

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: “God-Against-Us.” This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt....

Think you can and you can do it.Your thoughts are your life.

I’m more curious to know what a cat think than what a philosopher thinks.

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things...

Our lives can hold just so much. If they’re filled with one thing, they can’t be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.

By the second day, the song lyrics had faded, but in their place came darker irritations. Gradually, I started to become aware of a young man sitting just behind me and to the left. I...

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.

Children used to get bullied at school. Now they go home, and that’s where the problem starts – because they sit on their phones all night, thinking about who’s ‘liked’ a photo of them, who...

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Open the door of nature; enter inside; forget yourself; think nothing; be the nature itself and now you are a heron, a river, a rosehip, you are the shadow of a fox, sweet fruit of...

Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn’t even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on...

Every one who has taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it that makes a difference.

Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention is turned to the circumstances...

A warrior of the Light is never in a hurry.Time works in his favor; he learns to master his impatience and avoids acting without thinking.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die… I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been...

Life can be frustrating sometimes. Take a nap, exercise, meditate or do whatever it takes to ‘reboot’ your thinking. Happiness is just a thought away!

Like prepositional phrases, certain structural arrangements in English are much more important than the small bones of grammar in its most technical sense. It really wouldn’t matter much if we started dropping the s from...

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody… I am old fashioned.

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious,...

I remember being told ‘Someone’s gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing’ and thinking ‘no way’.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.

Why were there no words that spoke positively about being concerned about the self? Why was there only negative connotation in terms like “selfish”, “self-interested”, “self-centred”, “self-obsessed” and so on? Why was it so much...

The rest of the time, I don’t do so much thinkin’. ‘Cuz if I did, I’d go running back to where things is simple. You see?

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

never look behind

Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic, to be bad at second-guessing the good.

I’m interested in Scotland now and then, how it’s changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed,...

There is a flow to history and culture. This flow is rooted and has its wellspring in the thoughts of people. People are unique in the inner life of the mind — what they are...

Uninspired minds are perpetual creators of obstacles to progress

Because even among contrarians, I’m a contrarian. But all of this is just words of bronze, third place rhetoric. What do I really mean when I say we want to shock society into awareness? Do...

All thoughts, secret or spoken, belong in a coffee table book written in Braille, so you can really feel the emotions.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

i believed that imagination is stronger than knowledge, sometimes that dreams are more powerful than fact,stronger dreams may seized peoples heart with full of amore/love

Bet jei neturėtum ko svarstyti, kuo tikėti, nė neatrodytų, kad gyveni.

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a...

We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if...

At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affection and the positive feelings that they were exuding. It was actually moving. I remember thinking, ‘I’m...