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Never speak more clearly than you think.
He can't think without his hat.
An editor must always be with the peoplethink with themfeel with themand he need fear nothing, he will always be rightalways be strongalways free.
You can't think and hit at the same time.
Brain, n. Anapparatus with whichwethink that wethink.
You, for example, clever to a fault, The rough and ready man who write apace, Read somewhat seldomer, think perhaps even less.
She had a mannish manner of mind and face, able to feel hot and think cold.
Je pense, donc je suis. I think, therefore I am.
'I am inclined to think'said I. 'I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked, impatiently.
But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much.
But I can't think for you, You'll have to decide, Whether Judas Iscariot Had God on his side.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Think beforeyouspeak iscriticism'smotto; speak before you thinkcreation's.
Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden; man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken. Everything clever has been thought of before.We must try to think it again.
Just occasionally you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it bydegrees and inthemost natural way, but when you are right in the midst of it you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about. If, for example, you put to sea on a wooden raft with a parrot and five companions, it is inevitable that sooner or later you will wake up one morning out at sea, perhaps a little better rested than ordinarily, and begin to think about it.
Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built onTrent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think.
But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.
In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he isgrowing old.
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to thinkclearly.
Mydear friend, clear your mind ofcant You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society: but don't think foolishly.
Pray inwardly, even though you do not enjoy it. It does good though you feel nothing, even though you think you are doing nothing.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs.
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dreamand not make dreams your master; If you can thinkand not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet withTriumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same.
What will Mrs Grundy say? What will Mrs Grundy think?
Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
They never taste who always drink; Theyalways talk who never think.
The general public has long beendivided intotwo parts: thosewho think that science candoanything, and those who are afraid that it will.
I never expect a soldier to think, sir.
Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
I think continually of those who were truly great.
You know more than you think you do.
But I'm not so think as you drunk I am.
Whenever I think, I make a mistake.
We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?
If this is dying, then I don't think much of it.
I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.
By the waters of Babylon we sit down and weep, when we think of thee,OAmerica!
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
We think back through our mothers if we are women.
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