Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer 
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
She's been diagnosed as a paranoid hypochondriac.
Doctors think she may be faking.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Whenever I date a guy, I think,
"Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?"
- Rita Rudner
I personally think we developed language
because of our deep need to complain.
- Lily Tomlin
You can lead a man to Congress,
but you can't make him think.
- Milton Berle
No one can have a higher opinion of you than I have,
and I think you're a slimy, contemptible sewer rat!
- the movie The Great Mouse Detective
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
The key is, to not think of death as an end,
but as more of a very effective way to cut down on your expenses.
- the movie Love and Death
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot.
Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
- John F. Kennedy
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
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
I don't like to think of laws
as rules you have to follow,
but more as suggestions.
- George Carlin
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
What do I think of Western civilization?
I think it would be a very good idea.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The objection to Puritans is not that
they try to make us think as they do,
but that they try to make us do as they think.
- H. L. Mencken
Think of how stupid the average person is,
and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- George Carlin
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
If it turns out that there IS a God,
I don't think that he's evil.
I think that the worst you can say about him
is that basically he's an underachiever.
- the movie Love and Death
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write,
I think there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
I think that there is nothing, not even crime,
more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself
than this incessant business.
- Henry David Thoreau
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone who knows history, particularly
the history of Europe, will, I think,
recognize that the domination
of education or of government
by any one particular religious faith
is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
- Albert Einstein
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends
and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that.
That's what's insane about it.
- John Lennon
People do not like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Think for yourself and question authority.
- Timothy Leary
I don't know if we each have a destiny,
or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze.
But I, I think maybe it's both.
- the movie Forrest Gump
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The grand aim of all science is to cover
the greatest number of empirical facts
by logical deduction from
the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- Albert Einstein
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever
to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wilde
I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's
most effective criticism until you provoke him.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
- Henry David Thoreau
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation
of confusion, misery and death...
I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
- Anne Frank
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
We shall require a substantially
new manner of thinking
if mankind is to survive.
- Albert Einstein
All truths are easy to understand
once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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