329 quotes found
“He who thinks little errs much…”
“Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.”
“The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.”
“The thought process can never be complete without articulation.”
“I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learn...”
“People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll b...”
“At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!”
“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?.... In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. O...”
“The part of thinking that’s easy to handle is the part that works by analogy with speech. Thinking in words, speaking our thoughts internally, projects an auditorium inside our skulls. Dark or brig...”
“…Oh dear, I sometimes think…whatever would I do if anything happened…But thinking's no good, is it, madam? Thinking won't help. When I find myself doing that, I say to myself, "come along, Ellen! S...”
“Someday I'll understand more of these things. At the moment I just have to think them through. Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google.”
“Look, I say. You can't just let your thoughts float around in the ether and hope eventually they'll connect with something. It's absurd.No, it's not, Gil says. Lots of good things happen that way. ...”
“Let me thinkThinking is all I haveIf wisdom is a pretenseThen let me pretend to be wise”
“You think too much.''I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet...”
“An Englishman thinks seated a Frenchman standing an American pacing an Irishman afterward.”
“Analogies it is true decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home.”
“Thought is the labour of the intellect reverie is its pleasure.”
“Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out . but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”
“When thought becomes excessively painful action is the finest remedy.”
“All thought is a feat of association having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.”
