“Thinking is one way of doing, and words are one way of thinking”
“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
“Right thinking leads to right action.”
“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word intellectual, of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
“Poirot, I said. I have been thinking. An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
“Your mind is working at its best when you re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.”
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”
“Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)”
“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”
“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”
“If you make people think they re thinking, they ll love you; but if you really make them think, they ll hate you.”