Thinking Quotes

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

Men who think deeply say little in ordinary conversations.

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

You are what you think.

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

We become what we think about.

Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don’t be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an imancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.[В пьесе старайся быть оригинальным и по возможности умным, но не бойся показаться глупым; нужно вольнодумство, а только тот вольнодумец, кто не боится писать глупостей.]