Quotes with thinking

Quotes 381 till 400 of 462.

  • Andy Warhol Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • William James To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Richard Whately To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.''
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Alcaeus of Mytilene To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
    Alcaeus of Mytilene
    Ancient Greek poet
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  • Og Mandino To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Albert Camus To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • James F. Byrnes Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
    James F. Byrnes
    American judge and politician (1882 - 1972)
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  • Bernard Crick Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 2, A Defence Of Politics Against Ideology, p.
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Frederick W. Robertson Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet -a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Edward Gibbon Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • George Orwell Using clichés is a substitute for thinking.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Virginia Woolf We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Alan Watts We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Ben Stiller We covered Hey Jude. My father panicked, misunderstanding the lyrics and thinking our lead singer was belting out Hey, Jew to a roomful of Holocaust survivors.
    As quoted in The Best Book of Useless Information Ever
    Ben Stiller
    American actor, comedian, film producer, film director, and writer (1965 - )
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  • Albert Camus We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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