| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Att fundera är sämre än att pokulera, men att erfara är äkta vara. | Sufi Sam |
| De som vet hur man tänker behöver inga lärare. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Den som haltar, kan fortfarande gå. | Joan Rivers (1933-) |
| Det finns människor som tänker att de tänker. Men det är allt de tänker. | Loesje (1983-) |
| Det viktiga är inte vad de tycker om mig utan vad jag tycker om dem. | Queen Victoria (1819-1901) |
| Det är varken bra eller dåligt, men tänkandet gör det så. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Du kan inte tänka på ingenting. | Eric Rohmer (1920-) |
| Där alla tänker lika tänker ingen särskilt mycket. | Walter J. Lippmann (1889-1974) |
| Där alla tänker lika, tänker inte någon särskilt mycket. | Walter J. Lippmann (1889-1974) |
| En nytänkare är blott en som inte vet vad de gamla tänkarna har tänkt. | Frank Moore Colby (1865-1926) |
| Förutom våra egna tankar, finns det inget som vi har full makt över. | Rene Descartes (1596-1650) |
| I 20-årsåldern bryr vi oss inte om vad omvärlden tycker om oss; i 30-årsåldern oroar vi oss över vad den tycker om oss; i 40-årsåldern upptäcker vi att den inte tänkte på oss alls. | Thomas L. Masson |
| Ingen hjärna är starkare än sin svagaste tanke. | Thomas L. Masson |
| Jag tror inte att jag är till nytta, för om jag trodde det, skulle jag inte vara det. | Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984) |
| Jag tycker att sex alltid ser lite roligt ut på film. | William Friedkin (1939-) |
| Klart tänkande kräver mer mod än intelligens. | Thomas S. Szasz (1920-) |
| Om du bara tänker på vad du vill göra och vad du hoppas ska hända kommer du aldrig göra det, och det kommer aldrig hända. | Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536) |
| Om du tror att du kan, så kan du. Men om du tror att du inte kan, då har du rätt. | Mary Kay Ash (1915-2001) |
| Om du ändå ska tänka, tänk stort. | Donald Trump (1946-) |
| Prata aldrig tydligare än du tänker. | Jeremy Bernstein (1929-) |
| Tänk med hela kroppen. | Taisen Deshimaru (1914-) |
| Tänkande är visdomens essens. | Persian Proverb |
| Vad det här landet behöver är färre offentliga tal och mer privat tänkande. | Roscoe Drummond |
| Vad hjärtat tycker, talar tungan. | Romanian Proverb |
| Vi blir det vi tänker. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| Vi måste våga tänka otänkbara tankar. | James W. Fulbright |
| Vi tänker bara när vi stöter på ett problem. | John Dewey (1859-1952) |
| A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind. | Albert Pike (1809-1891) |
| Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. | Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) |
| It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. | Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) |
| People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it. | Anthony de Mello |
| Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn't born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana. | Don Mattingly (1961-) |
| We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire | George Saintsbury (1845-1933) |
| Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking | Grace McGarvie |
| I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. | Harold Kushner |
| There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking. | John M. Eades |
| Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence. | Marina Oswald (1941-) |
| The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know. | Mary Stewart (1916-) |
| The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium. | Norbet Platt |
| I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today. | Rae Foley |
| I don't think she'll [Venus Williams] be around for a very long time. I doubt it will be a long career for her. She can make a lot more money out of (tennis) rather than in tennis." | Richard Williams |
| In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given. | Robert Hunter |
| People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life. | Robert Towne (1934-) |
| I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up this company [Microsoft]. | Steve Ballmer (1956-) |
| The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling. | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. | Will Cuppy (1884-1949) |
| When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. | A. A. Milne (1882-1956) |
| To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. | Alvin Toffler (1928-) |
| I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem | Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. (1859-1930) |
| You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot. | Ben Stein (1944-) |
| Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. | Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958) |
| The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. | Coco Chanel (1883-1971) |
| Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based. | Deepak Chopra (1947-) |
| What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about. | Diana Vreeland (1906-1989) |
| My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts. | Edna O'Brien (1932-) |
| The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. | Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) |
| Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. | Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) |
| Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say | Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) |
| I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical. | Imelda Marcos (1930-) |
| Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy. | John Dewey (1859-1952) |
| Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell? Can the loving wife in Heaven be happy with her unbelieving husband in Hell? I tell | Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) |
| I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life. | Julia Roberts (1967-) |
| I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess. | Katie Holmes (1978-) |
| Shopping: I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't want | Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) |
| Thinking is heavily endorsed. | Mal Pancoast |
| The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. | Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess |
| People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time | Norman Cousins (1912-1990) |
| No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. | Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) |
| Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny. | Frank Outlaw |
| The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know. | Mary Stewart (1916-) |
| A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking but we never say a thing. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. | Ray Bradbury (1920-) |
| If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen. | Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536) |
| Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. | Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) |
| When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy | Salman Rushdie (1947-) |
| I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental. | Angelina Jolie (1975-) |
| If it can be conceived at all - it must exist. | Anselm Of Canterbury |
| Think of the going-out before you enter | Arabian Proverb |
| Man should think like few do and talk like the many others. | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. | Benjamin Lee Whorf |
| Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties | Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) |
| The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. | Christopher Morley (1890-1957) |
| Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves. | Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961) |
| Men should strive to think much and know little. | Democritus |
| Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn't born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana. | Don Mattingly (1961-) |
| As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big. | Donald Trump (1946-) |
| All men think all men mortal, but themselves | Edward Young (1683-1765) |
| Positive anything is better than negative nothing. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| Nous sommes peu à penser trop, trop à penser peu.(There are a few who think too much, and many who think too little) | Françoise Sagan (1935-) |
| Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think | George Carlin (1937-) |
| I do this real moron thing, it's called thinking, and I'm not a very good Amercian because I like to form my own opionions. | George Carlin (1937-) |
| "Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| Act quickly, think slowly. | Greek proverb |
| The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities | Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) |
| A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt. | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| The way a man's mind runs is the way he is sure to go. | Henry B. Wilson |
| No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| If you think you can do a thing, or think you can't do a thing; you're right | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. | Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) |
| Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence. | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| Don't think, just do. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto the plains, where some were probably hit by cars | Jack Handy (1991-2003) |
| “We speculated what it was like before we got language skills. When we humans had our first thought, most likely we didn’t know what to think. It’s hard to think without words ‘cause you haven’t got a clue as to what you’re thinking. So if you think we suffer from a lack of communication now, think what it must have been like then, when people lived in a ‘verbal void’ - made worse by the fact that there were no words such as ‘verbal void‘.” | Jane Wagner (1935-) |
| The decisions used to be so much easier, the course of action so much clearer. There was obviously the right thing to do. When did the right decision become so clouded? How did it become so blurred… and why for that matter? What should I do and how do I wanna play this? The thinking man’s dilemma. | Jeff Davis |
| We only think when we are confronted with a problem | John Dewey (1859-1952) |
| We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
| There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. | Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) |
| Thinking is like loving or dying. Each of us must do it for ourselves. | Josiah Royce (1855-1916) |
| I think-therefore I'm single | Lizz Winstead (1961-) |
| To live is to think. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. | Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) |
| The 'how' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile 'ifs'. | Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) |
| I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. | Oprah Winfrey (1954-) |
| A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Think globally, act locally | Sir Paul McCartney (1942-) |
| The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| The eye is bigger than the belly | Proverb |
| He who trusts all things to chance, makes a lottery of his life | Proverb |
| Ducks quack loudly before a rain | Proverb |
| "They say" is often a great liar | Proverb |
| A boaster and a liar are cousins | Proverb |
| Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity. | Reggie Jackson (1946-) |
| You think you're in the movies / And everything's so deep / But I think that you're wild / When you flash that fragile smile | Ric Ocasek (1949-) |
| We think as we do, mainly because other people think so | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy, and th | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be noblest | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| The purpose of man is in action, not thought. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves "thinking people" respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned to respond to certain sounds. | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| Great thoughts come from the heart. | Vauvenargues, Marquis de (1715-1747) |
| Men's thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through...whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it. | Vauvenargues, Marquis de (1715-1747) |
| There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation many things remain incomprehensible and dark. And though the society in which we live considers such actions thoughtless, or reckless, or I don't k | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. | Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) |
| To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| Piglet: 'Pooh?'Pooh: 'Yes, Piglet?'Piglet: 'I've been thinking...'Pooh: 'That's a very good habit to get into to, Piglet.' | Winnie the Pooh |
| MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| You can't think and hit at the same time | Yogi Berra (1925-) |