You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.
What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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.
The inconceivable had become the usual, the impossible possible, and the possible and the usual unthinkable.
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death. I think peace and tranquillity will return eventually.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
“To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world’s sky.”
All thinking men are atheists.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking!
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.
A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men’s opinions are superficial and confused
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
To say more than what's necessary I don't think is appropriate for a man.
I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.
Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.
“Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”
“It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.”
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
The less men think, the more they talk.
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved ones for their own good because we think we know better than them what is good and what is bad for them, what is right and what is wrong in their thinking.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
Someone is arrogant because he thinks he has to prove something. And this is a symptom of internal insecurity.
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Time is money, so give me some money to think.
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.
I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.
When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me.
When you think something is beautiful and useful it has to be defended, I believe that the crisis in the teaching of Greek hides a much deeper problem, the crisis of literary teaching in general.
I do not think you learn wisdom just like that, by reading Thucydides and becoming reasonable, but I do believe that if young people came into contact with that period of reflection which is different from our time, but which nevertheless has elements in common, we would think better, in a more measured, more reasonable and more tolerant fashion.
Learning to think, to be precise, to weigh your words, to hear each other, is to be able to communicate and is the only means to stop the scary violence that is growing around us.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
“What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.”
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time, will think of us.
I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
A man is as miserable as he thinks he is.
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
A man marries when he has nothing else to think about.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
Somebody's boring me. I think it's me. When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
At times I think and at times I am.
It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment.
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.