Berra Yogi
You can't think and hit at the same time.

De Bono Edward 1933-
Think sideways!

Descartes René 1596-1650
Discourse on Method
I think, therefore I am.

Dewey Thomas E. 1902-1971
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

Dryden John 1631-1700
Absalom and Achitophel
But far more numerous was the herd of such
Who think too little and who talk too much.

Dunne Finley Peter 1867-1936
You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.

Einstein Albert 1879-1955
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times,
the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Eliot T. S. 1888-1965
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and
understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

France Anatole 1844-1924
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

Hazlitt William 1778-1830
The most silent people are generally those who
think most highly of themselves.

Housman A.E. 1859-1936
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think,
has endowed him with the ability to write.

Hubbard Kin 1868-1930
Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.

Huxley Aldous 1894-1963
What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined
by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

Inge Charles 1868-1957
‘On Monsieur Coué'
This very remarkable man
Commends a most practical plan:
You can do what you want
If you don't think you can't,
So don't think you can't think you can.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Boswell - Life
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant ... You may talk in this manner;
it is a mode of talking in Society: but don't think foolishly.

Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
Rewards and Fairies „If-"
If you dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same ...

La Bruyere Jean de 1645-1696
Les Caractѐres, ‘De la société et la conversation'
There are some who speak one moment before they think.

La Fontaine Jean de 1621-1695
Fables ‘Le Meunier, son Fils et l'Ane'
The greatest ass of the three is not the one you would think.

Lamb Charles 1775-1834
Last Essays of Elia „Detached Thoughts"
Books think for me.

Lawrence D.H. 1885-1930
„Leave Sex Alone"
...While we think of it,and talk of it
Let us leave it alone,physically,keep apart.
For while we have sex in the mind,we truly have
none in the body.

Leacock Stephen 1869-1944
When actors begin to think, it is time
for a change. They are not fitted for it.

Lessing Doris 1919-
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Lessing G.E. 1729-1781
‘Lied aus dem Spanischen'
Yesterday I loved, today I suffer, tomorrow I die: but I still
think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

Loos Anita 1893-1981
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
This gentleman said a girl with brains ought to
do something with them besides think.

Marquis Don 1878-1937
The successful people are the ones who think up things
for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Milton John 1608-1674
Samson Agonistes
Just are the ways of God,
And justifiable to men;
Unless there be who think not God at all.

Nash Ogden 1902-1971
‘Song of the Open Road'
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.

Picasso Pablo 1881-1973
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Pope Alexander 1688-1744
‘Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady'
Is there no bright reversion in the sky,
For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

Proverbs and Sayings
French
To want to forget something is to think of it.

Russell Bertrand 1872-1970
Many people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.

Rutherford Lord 1871-1937
(attributed)
We haven't got the money, so we've got to think!

Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Julius Caesar
Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o'nights;
Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
I have no other but a woman's reason:
I think him so, because I think him so.
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
The Devil's Disciple
I never expect a soldier to think.

Shelley Mary 1797-1851
(of her son's education)
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God,
teach him rather to think like other people.

Skinner B. F. 1904-1990
Contingencies of Reinforcement
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Smith Sydney 1771-1845
Sketches of Moral Philosophy
I never could find any man who could think for two minutes together.

Squire Sir J.C. 1884-1958
‘Ballade of Soporific Absorption'
But I'm not so think as you drunk I am.

Stephens James 1882-1950
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever
said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

Stevenson Robert Louis 1850-1894
Ballads ‘Christmas at Sea'
But all that I could think of, in the darkness and the cold,
Was that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old.

Strachey Lytton 1880-1932
(on his deathbed)
If this is dying, then I don't think much of it.

Tacitus AD. c.56-c.117
Histories
These times having the rare good fortune that you may think
what you like and say what you think.

Twain Mark 1835-1910
Notebooks
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of
ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Victoria Queen 1819-1901
The important thing is not what they think of me, it is what I think of them.

Virgil 70-19 BC
Aeneid
They can because they think they can.

Wallas Graham 1858-1932
The Art of Thought
The little girl had the making of a poet in her who, being told to be sure of her meaning
before she spoke, said, „How can I know what I think till I see what I say?"

Wilson Edmund 1895-1972
I think with my right hand.

Wilson Woodrow 1856-1924
If you think about what you ought to do for other
people, your character will take care of itself.

Yeats William Butler 1865-1939
Letters on Poetry ... to Dorothy Wellesley
Think like a wise man but express yourself like the common people.

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