Thinking

Famous quotes containing the word thinking:

“The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

“They were not thinking of the means by which they could win, but how they could
make use of the victory.”
—Julius Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar] (100–44 B.C.)

“Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)