Quotation Explorer - 'Thinks'

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. - Andy Warhol
When anyone thinks a woman who serves "gives 'cause that's what mothers or real women do," they deny her full humanity and thus fail to see the generosity inherent in her acts. - bell hooks
When something is as fundamental as trust the danger is that everyone thinks they understand what it is and therefore fail to define it. - David Amerland
Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner - Ruth Reichl
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is. - Robert W. Service
She thinks, I'm telling him who I am. He's interested in who I am. That is true, but I am curious about who she is because I want to fuck her. - Philip Roth
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw
You must give him time,' said her grandmother;'and you must be content not to be believed for a while. It is very hard to bear; but I have had to bear it, and shall have to bear it yet. I will take care of what Curdie thinks of you in the end. You must let him go now. - George MacDonald
Who thinks to interview their own mother? As a self-fixated teen, I never imagined that she had an actual personal history. To my young eyes, she was Source of Cash Obsessed With De-Cluttering - Jancee Dunn
Man, by thinking, can bring into his experience whatsoever he desires--if he thinks correctly, and becomes a living embodiment of his thoughts. This is not done by holding thoughts but by knowing the Truth. - Ernest Holmes
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy. - W. Somerset Maugham
The head thinks. The heart knows. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
An intelligent person positively accepts criticism, repeatedly thinks before giving any statement, and is capable of motivating himself/herself to be successful in the terrible situations in the way of life journey. - Md. Mujib Ullah
Don't be sad if people thinks you are a crazy psycoDon't mind may be you really are and peoples are right 'bout youHence, FuckOff Basically. - Jaiendra Puri
I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't. - Marilyn Vos Savant
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace. - Mark Twain
The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote, offered to a ghost that thinks it actually exists. - Enza Vita
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. - James Beard
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. - Jacopo Sannazaro
A "racist" thinks themselves better than other races. An "elitist" thinks they are better than everyone. - A.E. Samaan
What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. - Harold Howe
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. - Karl Kraus
Even with the Boy Scouts admitting openly gay youths, its exclusion of LGBT adults teaches our children by example what the organization really thinks about them and what they should think about themselves. - DaShanne Stokes
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things. - Bertrand Russell
There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can! - Henry Ford
Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."[Time Magazine, October 31, 1977] - John Osborne
Her suspicion brings me a small sense of gratification. She thinks I'm lying about something. Now we're even.Lake - Colleen Hoover
The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. - Jawaharlal Nehru
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. - George Bernard Shaw
If someone thinks that they are invincible, they would start to become arrogant with others and greedy about power. Eventually, people who are more intelligent can defeat him or her and give them a taste about their weakness. - Saaif Alam
Likewise, most of the world goes to bed at night under the assumption that if they were to die in their sleep, they would find themselves standing at the pearly gates. After all, good people go to heaven. And just about everybody thinks they are good. - Andy Stanley
We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes]. - Darnell Lamont Walker
A fool thinks that he can cheat others, but a prudent man knows that he can only cheat himself. - Debasish Mridha
Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy. - Sergei Dovlatov
Reincarnation is when I tell a girl I write spiritual books and she thinks I'm a monk. She has a medieval soul. - Daniel Marques
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. - Granville Hicks
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs. - Christopher Hampton
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. - Bible
An egotist is a man who thinks that if he hadn't been born, people would have wondered why.
Often a woman that doesn’t have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what other people can’t. It’s either superiority or a second chance to heal a wound they have, by meddling on your battlefield. - Shannon L. Alder
An ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a book-keeper. - E. O. Wilson
You are a light born to shine. You are not who the world thinks you are. You are not what you think you are. You are as God created you. Never see yourself less than that. You are powerful than you know! - Kemi Sogunle
Anyone who thinks money can't buy happiness has never owned a cat [or any pet]. - Arya Riverdale
Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. - William Shakespeare
He who thinks he knows it all knows very little." ~ - Dr. MaryAnn Diorio
We need to simplify life. Do you think grass thinks about who trod on it yesterday? No... It just continues to grow. And so should you. You cannot control who treads on you, but you do control your own growth. Don't ever let others inhibit you! - Tony Curl
Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you. - Johnny Depp
My friend Annabel calls it "Reverse Perfectionism" - if a man thinks he can't do something perfectly, he'd rather not do it at all… - Shelli NT
There are things that the heart thinks of that only the body understands; that is why i dance. - Paul Bamikole
If a girl thinks she isn't beautiful, I'm here to prove her wrong. - Kendall Schmidt
The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it’s just the character that the underlying truth of you is dreaming into existence. Enlightenment isn’t in the character, it’s in the underlying truth. - Jed McKenna
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. - Bernard Meltzer
Admiral Spartan thinks that the object must be exposed and penetrated with all possible speed. - Lincoln Child
Before she can stop herself, she thinks about desire, how it lives within you and yet is separate, surfacing when it chooses, without permission, in the harsh afternoon light, at the moment when you least expect to find it. - Alice Hoffman
A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. - George Bernard Shaw
When all think alike, no one thinks very much. - Albert Einstein
Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious. - Judy Garland
A beautiful Soul never know how beautiful it really is, a ugly allways thinks it is. - J.memo
In essence, Satan doesn't want you to believe what God thinks of Himself and what God thinks about you. - Ralph Harris
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. - Alphonse Karr
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted. - Francis Quarles
Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. - Sir Francis Bacon
IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another. - Ambrose Bierce
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down. - Laurie Helgoe
Chant to him: An individual thinks for himself. Then roll that around in his head till it means: If I didn’t think of it, it has no bearing on my life. - Geoffrey Wood
Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. - Henry Ward Beecher
I don't know what you have thought of. Everyone thinks to the extent of his depravity..." #HenriettaLedyanova. #ItalianPassion - OlgaGOA
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. - Epictetus
Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. - Ted Morgan
Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car. - Garrison Keillor
O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly. - A Gentleman
When a person thinks you are too good for them, they create a wall without even taking a chance. The best life that God has in store for a person is often thrown away because of what he or she thinks they deserve. True love is not the life you had, but the life you never realized you could have. - Shannon L. Alder
Everyone thinks they know better. Everyone. - Patrick Ness
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is. - Jean Anouilh
The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man. - Confucius
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty. - John Lennon
An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When feels that someone puts you aside, sometimes thinks in an act of selfishnessbut always its really to have afraid of something worst. - frank jymz
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. - J. K. Rowling
Everything that one thinks about a lot becomes problematic. - Friedrich Nietzsche
A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Which the Chicken and Which the Egg?He drinks because she scolds, he thinks;She thinks she scolds because he drinks;And nether will admit what's true,That he's a sot and she's a shrew. - Ogden Nash
Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist. - Tiffany Madison
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it. - George Bernard Shaw
Love is a common bond that occurs between two people when each thinks they have something to gain through the other's stupidity.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. - Ferdinand Foch
A person who thinks about "why" is a philosopher. - Debasish Mridha
How a woman thinks is often how she lives. - Lysa TerKeurst
He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.
What is ten thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
A woman will buy anything she thinks the store is losing money on. - Kin Hubbard
There isn’t a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights. - Mark Twain
The tribe often thinks the visionary has turned his back on them. When, in fact, the visionary has simply turned his face to the future. - Ray A. Davis
Others can't always define your true identity. They see what they 'want' to see but beyond your mess, God sees the beauty He created and still thinks it's good! - Chinonye J. Chidolue
I've worked hard to remember it...The problem is I'm not sure what's real memory and what's my brain filling in details, like a guy whose heart stops and he thinks he sees a bright light. Except I'm sure of my bright light. - Phil Klay
Death is not the endDeath can never be the end.Death is the road.Life is the traveller.The Soul is the Guide...Our mind thinks of death.Our heart thinks of lifeOur soul thinks of Immortality - Sri Chinmoy
Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high. - Adrienne E. Gusoff
Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense) - King Edward the Third
It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was. - Paris Hilton
No one ever thinks about the guy who was raised by the guy who was raised by wolves. - Demetri Martin
Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp. - Idries Shah
But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool. - Tom Dolby
A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying. - Alexandre Dumas
Radio provides a place for me to not be alone. I still subscribe to the idea that I listen to a DJ because I care about what he or she thinks. I don't like to just hear my own voice." - Celia Hirschman
Why aren’t the thinks I’m thinking getting thunk on the page any faster?!? (from Stop Lying: Writing Is Hard on ChristopherLehman.com) - Christopher Lehman
everyone thinks that other places is more fun than staying at home,but at the end..you will be coming home,because..that's where you belong to.. - nadia nazmir
Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take smiles away unexpectedly and with surprises. - Israelmore Ayivor
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. - John Dewey
If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed. - C.S. Lewis
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy
When you are positive; mind thinks, when you are negative; mind thinks,For mind can never be in balance.It is the Self, witnessing in awareness, Centered, which observes these two. - Gian Kumar
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of. - Mark Twain
Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des AndersdenkendenFreedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently. - Rosa Luxemburg
No man thinks the same story when looking at a photo because every mind lived a different story! - Mehmet Murat ildan
If you thinks right the right things, then the right thinks will make the things right. - Sandip Thapa
In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can. - Abel Aganbegyan
Facts do not become historical evidence until someone thinks up something for them to prove or disprove. - Cary Carson
Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion of themselves and one another? he thinks. - William Faulkner
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. - Jef Raskin
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation. - James Clarke
Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. - Alphonse Karr (1808-1890)
The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best - A.S. Neill
If a lion cub thinks it is a kitten, it will grow up catching mice. - Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Love has no eyes, but sees much,has no ears, but hears much,has no hands, but does much,has no mind, but thinks much,and has no heart but feels much. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. - Laurence J. Peter
I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A fool thinks he is always right, a wise person always doubts himself. - Debasish Mridha
Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet decides these things, here in the modern age. - Alexei Maxim Russell
Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins to be incredulous. - Thucydides
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits... - A.A. Milne
Mankind thinks only of living because he is dying, and it is only in dying that he gains his freedom to live - Judy Azar LeBlanc
Matty just rolled his eyes and walked over to his older brother. "Why is it when everyone thinks they're on their death bed, they suddenly find Jesus?"Jayne shrugged and replied, "Because that's where he likes to hang out? - Nonjon
People mean well; they just aren't here enough to get what we are dealing with or what home means to my mother. Everyone thinks they know what should be done, and their suggestions make me suspect they must consider me an idiot who doesn't comprehend the situation. - George Hodgman
Most fools think he is the wisest person but the most wise person thinks he is a fool. - Debasish Mridha
Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.
[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it."[Man and the Gospel (1865)] - Thomas Guthrie
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. - Henry David Thoreau
What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right. - Roy T. Bennett
I, sometimes, fear that probably I'll just keep changing cities, and may be someday I'll also travel the world, but never find another soul who thinks exactly the way I do. - Sanhita Baruah
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God. - Isaac Newton
A Christian sits in his or her well and thinks that the whole world is his or her well. The Jew sits in his or her little well and thinks that it is the whole world. A Muslim sits cooped up in his or her tiny well and believes it to be the whole universe. The same goes for a Hindu and all others. - Abhijit Naskar
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man. - John W. Campbell Jr.
No matter who you are, or what side of the tracks society thinks you are from, if you wake up wanting to write, then do what you must to write. - Lydia Rodriguez-Clement
Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born. - Matthew Prior
Everyone has something to think about everyday, but it is not everyone who thinks about something everyday. And that is the difference - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Honesty is a fine foundation from which to build upon; for if one was to really know what another thinks and how they feel…they would surely treat each other differently - Jeremy Aldana
Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine. - Cicero
It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks. - Cornelius Tacitus
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction. - Leo Tolstoy
A master can tell you what he thinks of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations. - Patricia Neal
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.
It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry. - Gerry Geek
Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it's power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much? - Hannah Harding
The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation. - James Freeman Clarke
He who thinks money is the key to happiness, my heart cries for him. One has no overstanding of life. - Andrea L'Artiste
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there -buried under the 50,000 thoughtsthe average person thinks every day - Deepak Chopra
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. - Dorothy Parker
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. - Honoré de Balzac
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. - Walter Lippmann
If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can’t, choose their faith over your doubt. - Alan Cohen
She thinks of her mother, sitting cross-legged, sewing marigolds into garlands for the gods, telling her: "The biggest mistake we make is thinking we are powerless - Isha Karki
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. - Walter Lippmann
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
...baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you. So don't let Mrs Dubose get you down. She had enough troubles or her own. - Harper Lee
Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world
A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love. - Denise Mina
People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. - Helen Keller
Everyone thinks that they are intelligent even though there is no sign of intelligence. - Debasish Mridha
Tiered body, mined, with soul. When ones must swim through all the fake while it is what it is not what one thinks it can be worded it in to and or glamour shot it to be. - Shane Edward Thompson
व्यक्ति अपने विचारों से निर्मित एक प्राणी है, वह जो सोचता है वही बन जाता है.A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. - Mahatma Gandhi
In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others. - Katherine Howe
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.... - Jacob M. Appel
He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth. - John Milton
everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death - Thomas Bernhard
That’s not Eire. Everyone always thinks that, but we’re not shamrocks and wee men. You should know the difference. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. - Mahatma Gandhi
Allow yourself to be freed from the constraints of what the mind knows, believes & thinks. - Eleesha
Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar. - John Waters
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. - Woodrow Wilson
A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks. - Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib
Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up - Jodi Picoult
When you are in love, your eyes see him only, your ears hear him only, your mouth speaks of him only, your mind thinks of him only, your heart desires him only, your soul lives for him only; your entire universe revolves around him only. - Matshona Dhliwayo
You can’t control other people’s actions, but you can control who thinks they have control over you. - Shannon L. Alder
God is a thing that thinks. - Baruch Spinoza
Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time. - Christopher Paolini
It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character. - Michelle Richmond
We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith. - Charles R. Swindoll
Wish we have a gadget within everyone's budget to let the people know as what actually one thinks in own mind while wishing others the heartiest greetings on the special or any day. - Anuj Somany
The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred. - Sharon Salzberg
As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one thinks it to be water, until he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing, but he finds Allah with him, Who will pay him his due (Hell). And Allah is Swift in taking account. - Anonymous
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us -- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. - Christopher Hampton
Achievement comes from within. If you don’t feel it, it won’t make any difference what anyone else thinks. - Michelle Somers
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. - Leo Tolstoy
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! - Dr. Seuss
You can tell how often a person thinks of you by how often they tell you they think of you. - Mark W. Boyer
He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot. - Unknown
He is able who thinks he is able. - Buddha
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. - Sidney J. Harris
True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian. - Shannon L. Alder
Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it. - J. Robert Oppenheimer
As he thinks in his heart, so he is. - Jewish Proverb
Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties. - Walter Moers
my problem is that my body acts before my brain thinks... it sometimes brings me huge trouble, or also huge success. recently, my body and brain got come to an agreement. it may be far better to live this gambling life than living in boring average ...they at least make my art more interesting - Hiroko Sakai
Our generation thinks only about where they are going not how they are driving - Prabakaran Thirumalai
When you choose a man who thinks eight seconds is a long time, perhaps you need two of them. Hmm? - Cat Johnson
Now logic is a wonderful thing but it has, as the process of evolution discovered, certain drawbacks. Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else which thinks at least as logically as it does. - Douglas Adams
Everyone thinks that teachers are automatically above the taught The teachers are the taught. - Matthew Donnelly
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. - Herman Melville
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. - Charles Wadsworth
OPPOSE, v. To assist with obstructions and objections. How lonely he who thinks to vex With bandinage the Solemn Sex! Of levity, Mere Man, beware; None but the Grave deserve the Unfair. Percy P. Orminder - Ambrose Bierce
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. - George Bernard Shaw
Mechanics of Mind: I feel the greatest source of despair stems not from what we do on a daily basis, but the pace at which our mind thinks vis-a-vis our progression in real life that matters - the greater the gap the more the despair! - Ramana Pemmaraju
Because it is the lot of mothers to remember what no one else cares to, Mrs. Dutta thinks. To tell them over and over until they are lodged, perforce, in family lore. We are the keepers of the heart's dusty corners. - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Thought: everyone had their own thought, but those who writes had their own view and people make several views on that one view. Its not fair, he who thinks only can describe what the reality is not by others. - Nutan Bajracharya
My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. - Robert Frost
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. - Oscar Wilde
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides. - André Malraux
He who thinks by not talking to his wife or girlfriend can make her realize and apologize for her mistakes only, is in a fool’s paradise. - Anuj Somany
He who thinks they know it all, is bound to take the greatest fall. - Colette Parrino
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. - Helen Keller
Come on, let’s go meet the guy who thinks he’s my better half . And dear God, I apologize ahead of time if he starts talking to you about how many eight-point bucks he’s planning to hunt this weekend. - J. Lynn
Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy. - Don Roff
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass. - James Allen
Always maintain the attitude of a student. When a person thinks they have finished learning, that is when bitterness and disappointment can set in, as that person will wake up everyday wondering when someone is going to throw a parade in their honour for being so smart. - Nick Offerman
Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone,All just supply, and all relation;Prince, subject, father, son, are things forgot,For every man alone thinks he hath gotTo be a phoenix, and that then can beNone of that kind, of which he is, but he. - John Donne
God cares only for what is his, busies himself with only himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes...He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is--A purely egoistic cause. - Max Stirner
The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time. - Frank A. Vanderlip
Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the windowsill under a tormenting, hot sun. - Anthony Liccione
I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer. - David Sedaris
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. - Epictetus
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell
Extremities are flawed. Moderation is ideal, save for one occasion.So damn these eyes that weep too much.This mind that thinks too much. But never this heart that loves too much. - Kamand Kojouri
The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people left behind want to stop living, she thinks, without remembering where she heard that. - Frederick Backman
There’s no question about freedom of speech when everyone thinks exactly the same and no one says anything out of the accepted norms. In this kind of climate, even the mildest questions sound like heresy, and the outcome is intolerance of other people’s beliefs, ideas, actions and freedoms. - Keith Harmon
Every dreamer thinks their dream is the true one. - Marty Rubin
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. - Henry George
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. - George Bernard Shaw
It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. It matters what you think of yourself and what your children think. So if anyone is going to ask my advice, I'd say, do what is right for you and don't give a shit what anyone else thinks - Gwyneth Paltrow
The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can. - Albertano of Brescia
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. - George Bernard Shaw
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. - Rene Descartes
No matter whether you’re a gay or a mixed race couple; when you’re drawn together, ultimately it doesn’t matter what everybody thinks because it’s so honest, true, and sincere. How can that be wrong? - Tegan Quin
In this lifetime you're nothing more than you appear to be: a stupid, selfish, ignorant, spoiled little girl who thinks the world lives or dies on whether she gets to go out with some good-looking boy at school...I'd still relish this moment...killing you. - Lauren Kate
For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars? - Bertolt Brecht
Memory puts a halo around everything it thinks has vanished forever. - Marty Rubin
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think. - Harper Lee
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
If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal. - John Lennon
There is peace in knowing that whatever one thinks it is not the truth. - Marty Rubin
I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit. - Charles de Lint
I'm more curious to know what a cat think than what a philosopher thinks. - Marty Rubin
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Anybody who thinks of going to bed before 12 o'clock is a scoundrel. - Samuel Johnson
"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it." - George Bernard Shaw
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. - Henry David Thoreau
Who the hell cares about what anybody else thinks? Just look into your heart and do whatever the hell makes you happy. - Dr Kelso Scrubs
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says. - William Jennings Bryan
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. - William Shakespeare
Learn to set the pace for your relationship as a couple...not how the world thinks but how God designed it to be. - Kemi Sogunle
A thousand pounds for clothes--when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter! - Dodie Smith
Some Christians believe the harder that one thinks, the colder faith will grow. Augustine grew more brilliant as he grew more pious, more creative as he became more orthodox. His period of heresy was imitative, but his traditional Christianity took mental risks. - John Mark Reynolds
Your definition of a good life does not have to look like everyone else thinks it should. Whatever feels right for you, whatever aligns your inside with your outside, that's what you should spend your time doing. - G.G. Renee Hill
He who thinks little errs much… - Leonardo da Vinci
It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. What matters is you can look in the mirror, and love who you see. - B. Dave Walters
I hate the way my mother thinks. - M
Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable.
Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. - William Shakespeare
But they are many and he is alone.This has not come to pass yet, he thinks, this is not happening. I am not dying. This is my fate, what shall be. This is the future, it has not happened yet. - John French
I want you back here now. I want you next to me now. I cannot believe that my family, your brother, all our friends, and an entire police force can't keep tabs on one twenty-six year old graphic designer who thinks he's fuckin' Batman.--Detective Sam Kage in A Matter Of Time (vol 2 or part 4) - Mary Calmes
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. - Confucius
He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chestwhere a heart would fit perfectlyand he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place –well then, game over. - Richard Siken
If you find a man who trusts you, who isn't afraid, who sees you for who you are, and if it feels like he knows you for who it is that you simply are, and thinks all of that is beautiful; know that you have found a rare thing. - C. JoyBell C.
If anyone thinks interracial "anything" is a big deal, they're probably inbred. - M.B. Dallocchio
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