To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
Aristotle
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson
I think; therefore I am.
Rene Descartes
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thinking evil is making evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
Oscar Wilde
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne Frank
I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
John Dewey
Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.
Ernest Hemingway
To live is to think.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte
What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
Scott Westerfeld
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Benjamin Disraeli
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Benjamin Disraeli
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
Henry Ford
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford
Those who have got into the habit of consuming music for free are very hard to shift. And frankly it's an argument for increasing the scale of court cases because at the moment, people still don't think it's going to be them.
John F. Kennedy
The trouble with conservatives today is that most of their thinking is so naive. As for the liberals, their thinking is more sophisticated; but their function ought to be to provide new ideas, and they don't come up with any.
John F. Kennedy
I think there is a law of equity in these disputes. When one party is clearly wrong, it will eventually give way... They had no business putting those missiles in and lying to me about it. They were in the wrong and knew it. So, when we stood firm, they had to back down. But this doesn't mean at all that they would back down when they felt they were in the right and had vital interests involved.
John F. Kennedy
We don't see the end of the tunnel but I must say I don't think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter.
John F. Kennedy
We're winning the war but we haven't won the war yet. I think whoever takes over this job in 20 years will still have to fight this fight.
John F. Kennedy
I think this is something that people will welcome who are not computer-literate. We hope this helps them move checking out their computer further up on the to-do list.
John F. Kennedy
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
John F. Kennedy
I married Joyce Sours, who has always understood my love for music and my need to perform. I think that is the most important thing in any musician's life is to make sure you marry a woman who will be understanding of the time you will put in to the music.
John F. Kennedy
I think we're here for each other.
Carol Burnett
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Douglas Adams
A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing.
Irish Proverb
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
Frank Sinatra
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
John Lennon
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Robert Frost
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey
Everything in your world is created by what you think.
Oprah Winfrey
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey
I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
Oprah Winfrey
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
Rita Mae Brown
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa
Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
Carl Sagan
I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.
M. C. Escher
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.
Lao tzu
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Dylan Thomas
Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.)
Rene Descartes
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.
William Shakespeare
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
William Shakespeare
Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
Saint Teresa Of Avila
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
Frederick Warren
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador Dali
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Horace Mann
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Horace Mann
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Horace Mann
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
Horace Mann
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
Horace Mann
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
Tommy Lasorda
Thinking is the essence of wisdom.
Persian Proverb
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus
My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.
Nikola Tesla
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Nikola Tesla
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola Tesla
What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi
I think it would be a good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.
Mahatma Gandhi
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent van Gogh
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
T. S. Eliot
In the summer he broke his wrist and couldn't play with us. He still came to events, sat on the bench, cheered on his teammates. I think that said a lot about him. We came in and had the best preseason we've ever had because guys were really committed. He's one of the guys who led the charge into us getting ready for the season.
Aaron Rosenberg
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
Emma Goldman
Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?
Storm Jameson
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
John Dewey
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
Charles Dickens
How could you?! Haven't you learned anything from that guy who gives those sermons at church? Captain Whatshisname? We live in a society of laws! Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you? Except at that guy who made sound effects. Makes sound effects and laughs. Where was I? Oh yeah! Stay out of my booze.
Matt Groening
There's an empty spot I've always had inside me. I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service, but those were dead ends! I think this chair is the answer.
Matt Groening
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
Laurence Sterne
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.
Stephen Hawking
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Michael Jordan
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
Theodore Roosevelt
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think -- in a deeper voice.
Bill Cosby
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
Benjamin Franklin
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.
Benjamin Franklin
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
Alfred North Whitehead
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
Alfred North Whitehead
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
Dale Carnegie
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think and plan.
W. Clement Stone
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
Charles M. Schulz
Cogito ergo dim sum. (Therefore I think these are pork buns).
Robert Byrne
And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?
William Wilberforce
Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity. I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.
Douglas Adams
Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
Douglas Adams
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas Adams
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Douglas Adams
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
Douglas Adams
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Douglas Adams
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
James A. Garfield
The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.
Deepak Chopra
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
Deepak Chopra
Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.
Wayne Dyer
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.
Sri Chinmoy
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
Isak Dinesen
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
Desiderius Erasmus
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong
To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
Charles Kuralt
Will you ever? I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am.I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star.
Erica Jong
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
Erica Jong
Sometimes I would think myself happy never to leave. Every trip must end.
Charles Kuralt
Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs
You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them most plainly when we need? Your father is alive in you Harry and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him.
J. K. Rowling
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
Steve Jobs
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
J. K. Rowling
So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'
Steve Jobs
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Nelson Mandela
A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.
Thucydides
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Sir Francis Bacon
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Sir Francis Bacon
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.
Kin Hubbard
Earnings growth has been surprisingly low for drug stocks and there is more of that to come as we go through a cycle of patent expirations, ... But I think the stocks are close to being washed out and if you have patience they will do quite well over a longer period of time.
Daniel Boone
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
Kin Hubbard
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
Franklin P. Adams
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
John Ruskin
I think it's an honor to be a role model to one person or maybe more than that. If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
Tiger Woods
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
John Ruskin
Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
John Ruskin
'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
G. K. Chesterton
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles F. Kettering
Ronald Reagan and George Bush pushed through programs that raised taxes on the middle class. I think it's time to cut them. And in my administration I'll offer a middle-income tax cut that will cut rates on the middle class.
Bill Clinton
I want to see the correct focus and the correct attitude, not just from the players, but the entire organization of the importance of the season. Last year, we rebounded and had a very good regular season and our expectations were high, and we didn't meet those expectations in the playoffs. I think rather than running from that, we need to meet those expectations head-on.
Doug Armstrong
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
G. K. Chesterton
Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.
Bill Clinton
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
Anita Roddick
You're going to have situations like this in long-term relationships. Everyone has to do things to get to a point of being very comfortable. I think he reached that point and realized the grass isn't always greener. He had to make some sacrifices financially to make this happen and to his credit he did.
Doug Armstrong
I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be a safe way to learn about anything except how many idiots think their opinions are a suitable substitute for facts.
Randy K. Milholland
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Albert Camus
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
Albert Camus
You don't need a lot of the stuff you think you need.
Jason Fried
I just think the reality of not ending his career in Dallas, putting on a different jersey, wasn't appealing to him.
Doug Armstrong
Late-learning, I think, is the desire for learning inconsistent with one's advanced age.
Theophrastus
A lot of people think 'Alice's Restaurant' was an anti-war song. It's not. It's an anti-idiot song.
Arlo Guthrie
But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobody's got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world.
Arlo Guthrie
Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
As a musician I guess the only thing I would ask from a listener is to put the CD in, close your eyes and forget about all the peripherals. I guess that's a dream that may not happen in my lifetime, but I listen to music from all sorts of people and I think there is an open-minded individual who will be able to listen to music of all types.
Jon Foreman
We found that a slick truck can also be on the edge in the draft. We found last year that we want a fair amount of drag on it because during the race, drag means grip. There's kind of a fine line. I think you want to build a truck that has a little bit of drag.
David Starr Jordan
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
Robert Henri
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Thomas A. Edison
The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.
Joe Paterno
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner
I think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakes in their life.
Christian Dior
Something like George passing, it makes you think, `God things are so impermanent: suddenly there's this little friend of mine, he used to get on the bus, and now he's passed away.' There's that whole lifetime of a friendship that physically has ended, not emotionally.
Paul Mccartney
Trust a nitwit society like this one to think that there are only two categories - fag and straight.
Gore Vidal
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Paul Mccartney
I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
John Adams
He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought along feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and being to mature.
Hermann Hesse
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
Garrison Keillor
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
Harry S Truman
For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.
Peter McWilliams
I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.
George W. Bush
I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.
Paul Mccartney
Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.
Garrison Keillor
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
Edgar Watson Howe
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Edgar Watson Howe
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