Top 100 Do Not Think Quotes
#1. I do not think it matters whether one agrees or not as long as ons is forced to think.
Vanessa Bell
#2. I do not think there should be a limit on the rig's liability, because they are sitting on top of unlimited amounts of oil, and thus, there could be an explosion occur that could do untold damage ... The amount of damage that an offshore oil rig can do is infinite.
John Chafee
#3. I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.
John Hodgman
#4. When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.
Swami Vivekananda
#5. I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
Adrienne Rich
#6. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. [ Inigo Montoya ]
William Goldman
#7. I do not think there can be any defense for the view that knowledge is ever undesirable.
Bertrand Russell
#8. As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
Carl Van Vechten
#9. Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you
Vincent Van Gogh
#10. I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.
Heinrich Hertz
#11. I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.
Eliot Engel
#12. I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.
Kathryn Lasky
#13. I am not empty. I am full to the brim with murder and revenge. I am overlfowing and I do not think you wish for me to overflow onto you.
Marissa Meyer
#14. Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.
Mignon McLaughlin
#15. A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.
Andre Siegfried
#16. So many tankers come down with maintenance problems all at once. I do not think that the press is telling us the whole story. Then again, maybe they are just a little slow on the uptake. The truth will reveal that Allah has truly blessed us.
Christian F. Burton
#17. I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.
Andrea Bocelli
#18. I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#19. do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. - NIKOLA TESLA, 1896, INVENTOR OF ALTERNATING CURRENT
Ray Kurzweil
#20. I do not think we should tax people to a point where they are looking for tax loopholes and getting their money out of the country.
Anthea Turner
#21. I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
Doris Lessing
#22. I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#23. I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.
William Hazlitt
#24. The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.
Julius Evola
#25. What I do not know, I do not think I know.
Socrates
#26. I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus.
Anthony Kennedy
#28. Do not concern yourself with what you know or what you do not know. Do not think about the past or the future, merely allow God's hands to write the surprises of the present on each new day.
Paulo Coelho
#31. I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.
Calvin Coolidge
#32. 'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war.
Stanley Hauerwas
#33. We do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and we do not live in chronic dread of disaster. We do not expect disaster until we have specific reason to expect it - and
Ayn Rand
#34. Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
Dogen
#35. Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#36. I do not think being a coordinator is a requirement, but it does give you some advantages. You get used to working with half the team and you go through the game-planning and decision-making processes.
Tony Dungy
#37. I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.
Ayn Rand
#38. I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.
Huey Newton
#39. To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand or account for all its utterances.
Christina Rossetti
#40. Transgender women do not think of themselves as men wearing women's clothing, they ARE women.
Cheryl B. Evans
#41. I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller
#42. If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to stay on top and reach a helping hand down to him. You must go all the way down yourself, down into mud and filth. Then take hold of him with strong hands and pull him and yourself out into the light.
Martin Buber
#43. Well, then, I must say that I do not like him at all. Though it has turned out so well for us, I do not like him at all. As it happens, there is no great harm done, because I do not think Isabella has any heart to lose. But, suppose he had made her very much in love with him?
Jane Austen
#44. I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future.
Turing believes machines think
Turing lies with men
Therefore machines do not think
Yours in distress,
Alan
Alan Turing
#45. I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#46. Express Your Appreciation To Your Employees. Do Not Think They Already Know, Cause They Don't
Marieke Stoop
#47. We take as building material relations and relata. The relations unite the relata; the relata are the meeting-points of the relations. The one is unthinkable apart from the other. I do not think that a more general starting-point of structure could be conceived.
Arthur Stanley Eddington
#48. I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.
Olafur Eliasson
#49. I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.
Richard Rohr
#50. The apostle Paul says in Romans 13:14, "Clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature." In other words, do not put yourself in a place where you can fall.
Ravi Zacharias
#51. We do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.
Edgar Schein
#52. I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong ...
Georges Braque
#53. With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.
Thomas Jefferson
#54. I love my people, and my family. Do not think I won't become a monster to keep them protected.
Sarah J. Maas
#55. We do not think of life - we live it. We do not think of ourselves too much. We do not think of others too much ... We just behave in a natural way.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#56. And what will they do to you when you have told them this story?'
Esca said very simply, 'They will kill me.'
'I am sorry, but I do not think much of that plan.' Marcus said.
Rosemary Sutcliff
#57. It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our cities or probably for much else in our society. But I do not think this is so.
Jane Jacobs
#59. Prince Asaka had joined the army only about ten days before its entry into Nanking and in view of the short time he was connected with this army I do not think he can be held responsible. I would say that the Division Commanders are the responsible parties.
Iwane Matsui
#60. I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.
Lin Yutang
#61. The art of writing was independently born in these four regions and I do not think it a coincidence that the advent of the written word was nourished by river water.
Olivia Laing
#62. Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect.
Laozi
#63. I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.
Charles Spurgeon
#64. I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#65. I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.
Hanya Yanagihara
#67. I do not think my life would make a very interesting book,' I say. 'I feel I can speak with a certain amount of authority here.
Paul Murray
#68. Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.
Simone Weil
#69. I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man ... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis]
Ernest Hemingway,
#70. There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Anatole France
#71. I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.
Michael Bloomberg
#72. I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.
Major Owens
#73. I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.
Ann Bancroft
#74. It is up to the people and boxing fans to give me the respect I deserve once I have finished my career. I personally do not think about my legacy.
Wladimir Klitschko
#75. I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can't explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
Noam Chomsky
#76. The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated from the things that are. And thus they would be correct to call coming-to-be mixing-together and passing-away dissociating
Anaxagoras
#77. Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
William Goldman
#78. I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.
Isaac Deutscher
#79. I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
Adam Jones
#80. The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think. Although this living may not be a real living. God! What contradictions when we seek to join in wedlock life and reason!
Bruce Lee
#81. I do not think, Prospero,' he said, 'that one should attribute a very high degree of reality to your house.
John Bellairs
#82. I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.
Jacques Lacan
#83. What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.
Adolf Hitler
#84. I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.
Charles Spurgeon
#85. I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.
Mason Cooley
#86. Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.
Romain Rolland
#87. I may not be able to say all I think, but I am not going to say anything I do not think.
Eugene V. Debs
#88. I do not think we are born with empathy. We learn it only after we have felt the hurt that we've inflicted on another.
M.D. Ireman
#89. Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#90. I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.
Jim DeMint
#91. When you watch the news and see members of your species in turmoil, do not think there is nothing you can do. But know it is not done by watching news.
Matt Haig
#92. In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think enough about pain Albert Camus
Robert Zaretsky
#93. If you think this life is all there is," he said, "then self-sacrifice must seem to you sheer insanity. If you do not think so then it is only common sense. It all depends on your point of view." (Hilary Eliot to David Eliot, Chapter 9)
Elizabeth Goudge
#94. I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
A. N. Wilson
#95. I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up as they are amongst all the horrors of civilization. The 'daring' child who used to be common enough, is seldom met nowadays.
Muriel Wace
#96. If you treat your wife poorly do not think you'd treat Jesus well.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#97. I do not think it is "selling America short" when we ask a great deal of her; on the contrary, it is those who ask nothing, those who see no fault, who are really selling America short!
J. William Fulbright
#98. All right. I do not think she will attack, though. She is a nice inhuman." "You mean nonhuman. Inhuman is an adjective," I said, as I rose from the lawn and padded softly around the left side of the house to the backyard. "Hey, I'm not a native speaker. Give me a break.
Kevin Hearne
#99. ... fighters do not think and thinkers do not fight. That is the natural design of warfare. -Peter Kotara.
Ray Anyasi
