Famous quotes containing the word thinking:
“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] (10044 B.C.)
“A baby is a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when youre pregnant, or youd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a motherhow reading goes out the window and thinking too.”
—Erica Jong (20th century)
“[A person] is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and, as it seems to me, essential to it: It being impossible for any one to perceive, without perceiving that he does perceive.”
—John Locke (16321704)