Thinks Quotes
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There are moments in life where the question of knowing whether one might think otherwise than one thinks and perceive otherwise than one sees is indispensable if one is to continue to observe or reflect... What is philosophy today... if it does not consist in, instead of legitimizing what we already know, undertaking to know how and how far it might be possible to think otherwise?
Michel Foucault -
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
Bono U2
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If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.
George Bernard Shaw -
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
Albert Einstein -
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw -
That in the soul which is called mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body.
Aristotle -
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes -
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
Georges Duhamel
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But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.
Nancy Mitford -
You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.
Audrey Hepburn -
My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle.
Eileen Collins -
I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.
Jennifer Donnelly -
Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
Honore de Balzac -
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
Martin Heidegger
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She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.
Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty -
Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
John Milton -
Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!
Muhammad Ali -
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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Positive and powerful: Sometimes people won't like me, and it's okay. Positive and powerful: I like me, and that's all that matters. Positive and powerful: It's more important what I think of me than what someone else thinks of me.
Beverly Engel -
What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
Emile Chartier -
The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.
Christian D. Larson -
The person who thinks with their own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything.... Better an error consciously committed and in good faith, than a good action performed in a servile manner.
Errico Malatesta