"It were not best that we should all think alike."
Read quote
11 likes
Thinking quotes
Thinking
95.1K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Thinking
Browse quotes that often appear alongside thinking — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Thinking quotes (page 246 of 4756)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far more widely distributed. But it has its value, I think. The hard and sordid things of life are too hard and too sordid and too cruel for us to know and touch them year after year without some mitigating influence, some kindly veil to draw over them, from time to time, to blur the craggy outlines, and make the thorns less sharp and the cruelties less malignant."
Read quote
11 likes
"It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet."
Read quote
11 likes
"There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time."
Read quote
11 likes
"Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't."
Read quote
11 likes
"George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage."
Read quote
11 likes
"I think that period dramas just need zombies."
Read quote
11 likes
"I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse."
Read quote
11 likes
"Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid."
Read quote
11 likes
"One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they."
Read quote
11 likes
"When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking."
Read quote
11 likes
"A lot of people – and I’m just not one of them – believe that you should live for the now. I think what you do is think about the great expanse of time ahead of you and try to make sure that you’re planning for that in a way that’s going to leave you ultimately satisfied. This is the way it works for me."
Read quote
11 likes
"I've always believed that you can funnel good things toward yourself by thinking positiviely."
Read quote
11 likes
"I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think."
Read quote
11 likes
"I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar."
Read quote
11 likes
"Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too."
Read quote
11 likes
"I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing."
Read quote
11 likes
"If you think you can do it, you can."
Read quote
11 likes
"I don't think Trump is a deeply self-aware person. But he's absolutely off the charts as a narcissist. He is the consummate narcissistic salesman. He is in fact a sick man. And that's potentially very dangerous. The only positive thing about Trump is that he has no ideology, he is an empty vessel, surrounded by people who give him ideas, and it only matters which ideas will shine the light on Trump."
Read quote
11 likes
"But I think it is also important that we pay tribute and acknowledge another great principle, and that is the principle of religious conviction. Religious freedom has no significance unless it is accompanied by conviction."
Read quote
11 likes