Quotes and Sayings About Thinking
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There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.
-- A. J. Muste -
The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
-- A. J. Muste -
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
-- A. L. Rowse -
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
-- A. N. Wilson -
It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.
-- A. N. Wilson -
A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
-- A. P. Herbert -
We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
-- A. Philip Randolph -
The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.
-- A. R. Bernard -
I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.
-- A. R. Gurney -
If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working.
-- A. R. Rahman -
After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
-- A. R. Rahman -
The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.
-- A. R. Rahman -
No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.
-- A. Ray Olpin -
I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
-- A. S. Byatt -
I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
-- A. S. Byatt -
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
-- A. Scott Berg -
President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., a modern prophet, said over and over again that the Lord would never let one of his Saints who had been faithful in the payment of tithes and offerings go without the necessities of life†(Marion G. Romney, “The Blessings of an Honest Tithe,†New Era, Jan.-Feb. 1982, 45). Members who faithfully pay tithing are promised spiritual blessings as well. “I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith
-- A. Theodore Tuttle -
I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
-- A. Theodore Tuttle -
Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.
-- A. V. Dicey -
There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a billion people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
-- A. Whitney Brown -
I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
-- A.C. Grayling -
I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.
-- A.J. Ayer -
I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.
-- A.J. Ayer
