Quotes about thinking
thinking people historical
The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living in an unprecedented way. Neither economic thinking nor historical experience suggests that any other social system could be as beneficial to the masses as capitalism. The results speak for themselves. The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: Si monumentum requires, circumspice. Ludwig von Mises
thinking class ability
The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.
thinking choices effort
Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ... The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state.
thinking government office
It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely because the authorities who control appointments to academic positions, want to know nothing of it, and to see the criterion of truth in the approval of a government office.
thinking firsts action
All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
thinking zippers garments
To think we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth. Jane Wagner
thinking differences laughing
We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be. Robert Fulghum
thinking knows ifs
You won't learn if you think you already know everything. Robert Kiyosaki
thinking use emotion
Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions
thinking important important-things
What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself ...
thinking people world
...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.
thinking class people
Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets,
thinking might acquisition
I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value. Gary Vaynerchuk
thinking long heaven
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame. Petrarch
thinking want sake
For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs? Lisa Kleypas
thinking tears looks
Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true? William Shakespeare
thinking blow skins
If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.
thinking woe misery
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
thinking white gulls
I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.
thinking swans crow
I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
thinking forget romeo-juliet
O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)
thinking india-and-pakistan friendly
I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do...and think that we can be of use to each other (and to) the world. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
thinking vases transparent
The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase. Maurice Maeterlinck
thinking belief can-do
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot Ben Stein
thinking culture form
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler. Baz Luhrmann
thinking people film
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
thinking may emigration
It may be that Emerson is going to hell, but of one thing I am certain; he will change the climate there, and emigration will set that way. Edward Taylor
thinking race secret
Perhaps the nuclear physicists have come so near to the ultimate secrets that He thinks it time to bring their activities to a stop. And what simpler method could He devise than to let them carry their ingenuity to the point where they exterminate the human race? Bertrand Russell
thinking
What we cannot think we cannot think, therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think.
thinking omnipotence appreciate
I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.
thinking skills people
The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the expert consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so.
thinking people mind
I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.
thinking people suffering
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.