Quotes about thinking
thinking transgression
There is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone. Ayn Rand
thinking reality mirrors
What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.
thinking age individualism
It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.
thinking issues doubt
I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.
thinking people perception
I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dishonest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not.
thinking trying down-and
I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.
thinking coins noble
Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.
thinking
I am. I think. I will.
thinking wish fountainhead
Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don't think of you.
thinking choices focus
Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.
thinking looks alive
Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?
thinking light important
You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.
thinking leaving ships
Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.
thinking atlas literature
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
thinking self people
I think most people act in their self-interest. Aubrey McClendon
thinking people comfort
I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There's nothing wrong with settling, it's definitely an easier life than the one I've chosen to live. Aubrey O'Day
thinking needs boxes
I think in society we tend to put ourselves in boxes and corners and restrict ourselves, and we constantly feel the need to not say this or not wear this.
thinking people labels
For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same system when it was German. I am compelled to think that this is due to the power of labels; these people like whatever is labelled ‘Left’ without examining whether the label has any justification. Bertrand Russell
thinking views people
Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation
thinking differences finding-yourself
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.
thinking class world-government
I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions are generated.
thinking views opposites
We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.
thinking mind may
A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.
thinking atheism science-and-religion
Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.
thinking religion trying
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
thinking spirit socialism
I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.
thinking belief certain
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
thinking color common-sense
The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.
thinking fool paradise
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
thinking doubt-and-certainty essentials
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
thinking journalist wanted
I dont think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist. Benjamin Booker
thinking violence moral
You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions. Benito Mussolini
thinking racist knows
I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler,