quotes about thinking

Home is where you hang your @. ~Author Unknown



Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~Thomas Jefferson



Science is the record of dead religions. ~The Oscariana of Oscar Fingall O'Flaherty Will Wilde 1856-1900 for George Bernard Shaw



And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. ~John 8:32



You can only trust yourself... and barely that. ~Paige Wilson



In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. ~Charles A. Lindbergh, Life, 22 December 1967



Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever." ~Gene Perret Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction. ~Oliver Prince Smith



Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury



Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind. ~Montaigne



And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and Shaw, even if you studied history or zoology or physics and hoped to spend your life pursuing some difficult and challenging career, you still had a mind full of all the soupy longings that every high-school girl was awash in... underneath it, all you longed to be was annihilated by love, to be swept off your feet, to be filled up by a giant prick spouting sperm, soapsuds, silk and satins and, of course, money. ~Erica Jong



Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country. ~Author Unknown



Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people. ~Barbara Walters



Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you. ~Alan Zweibel and Jessie Nelson, The Story of Us



It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ~Gandhi



If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library? ~Lily Tomlin



Anger turned inward is depression. Anger turned sideways is Hawkeye. ~Sidney Freedman, "Dear Sigmund," original airdate 9 November 1976, written and directed by Alan Alda



People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are. ~Marya Mannes



I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ~T.S. Eliot