Top 100 Think Clearly Quotes
#1. We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
Gary L. Francione
#2. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Eat pudding. Books are good. Eat pudding. If kids read a lot. Eat pudding. They'll get so they can think clearly. Eat pudding. And if enough kids read and think. Eat pudding. We will have world peace. Eat pudding. Thank you very much. Eat pudding.
Daniel Pinkwater
#3. God, help me. Help me to be wise and full of courage and sound judgment. Harden my heart to the sights that I must see so soon again, grant me only the power to think clearly, boldly, resolutely, no matter how unnerving the peril. Let me not fail them.
Anton Myrer
#4. Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy.
Michael Shanks
#5. When you can't think clearly, climb to the top of your thoughts
Benny Bellamacina
#6. There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.
Dalai Lama
#7. Ciro was beginning to understand the concept of America, and it was changing his view of the world and of himself. A man could think clearly in a place that gave breadth to his dreams. There
Adriana Trigiani
#8. As you focus on calming your breathing, your anxiety will quickly reduce and you will start to think clearly again. This is especially important if you feel a panic attack coming on.
Liz Miller
#10. This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.
Albert Camus
#11. I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and thus he was free to think clearly.
Peter Hessler
#12. It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.
George Hammond
#13. God, let me think clearly and brightly; let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences, let me someday see who I am.
Sylvia Plath
#14. Philosophy is an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
William James
#15. Pot enables you to think clearly without any fear or any limits. It's a mind-expander, which is part of why it's illegal and why drugs like Vicodin are legal.
Roseanne Barr
#16. I have been trying to think clearly about everything and to use all this distance to advantage. And here is what I've discovered. I don't love you, Ishmael.
David Guterson
#17. To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.
Rudy Giuliani
#18. Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
Orison Swett Marden
#19. Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world from which they were taken.
Bill Jay
#20. It's all right, darling. I'll finish the financial report on my own. I can think clearly before sex and stay awake afterwards. That's one of the nice things about being a woman.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#21. Fear and worry are emotions that cloud the mind from being able to think clearly, to remember what the procedures are to deal with that emergency.
Buzz Aldrin
#22. Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.
Thomas Metzinger
#23. Politicians and others are stuck in a horrible world where being emotional in any way counts as being unbalanced, and unable to think clearly. For me, emotions are thought.
Hofesh Shechter
#24. The wisdom and goal of innovative CIOs are to help the organization think clearly about the two horizons of future, the short-term gain, and the long term win.
Pearl Zhu
#25. The scent of him was subtle, beautifully fresh, and she couldn't think clearly. No man had ever brought out these intense feelings in her. Chris Augustine was dangerous and she could get lost in his arms.
Suzan Battah
#26. Unless you have read and absorbed the best that can be read and absorbed, you will not think clearly or well.
Harold Bloom
#27. He did not see at the moment how foolish it was for two of them to go on alone; nor did the King. They were too angry to think clearly. But much evil came of their rashness in the end. Suddenly
C.S. Lewis
#28. I've realized that you can never be your best self without extra bandwidth to think clearly, give to others, and appreciate sunrises and sunsets.
Glynnis MacNicol
#29. The only way to think clearly is to know that you can't change someone else but you can change you.
Anonymous
#30. The key to handling pressure situations like these is to keep yourself steady, follow your instincts and think clearly.
Sachin Tendulkar
#31. I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.
Gary Kemp
#32. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)
David McCullough
#33. The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
Bill Vaughan
#34. Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
Helen Keller
#35. I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine.
Bernie Sanders
#36. Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly or understand what God is trying to say to you.
Billy Graham
#37. I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#38. And he was gone before she could think clearly enough to explain that her yes was a Yes, I'll marry you.
Melissa Marr
#39. We were in Ireland. Was there ever a country so damp? I had to wring out my mind to think clearly. I was a morning mist of confusion.
Jeanette Winterson
#40. The angrier you were, the less likely you were to think clearly.
Anne Holm
#41. You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
David McCullough
#42. Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James
#44. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola Tesla
#46. We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason. It helps think clearly, judge sanely. It strengthens the action of our will.
Thomas Merton
#47. It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being.
Lauren Oliver
#48. You dazzle me so much I find it very difficult to think clearly when we're together.
E.L. James
#49. Being forced to write clearly means, first, you have to think clearly.
Fareed Zakaria
#50. To think clearly about the future, we need to clean up the language that we use in labeling the beliefs we had in the past.
Daniel Kahneman
#51. Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
Malcolm X
#52. Whatever the human mind can think clearly it can be achieved.
Qasim Ali Shah
#53. Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
Barack Obama
#54. Meanwhile the temperature is getting hotter and hotter so no one can think clearly. No one perceives. No one cares. Insane madness come out like life is a terrific party.
Kathy Acker
#55. I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.
Samuel P. Huntington
#56. Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you're seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.
Dalai Lama
#57. All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.
William Ellery Channing
#58. I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.
Valentino Rossi
#59. I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find myself regurgitating almost unconsciously.
Roseanne Barr
#60. [W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.
Jonathan Haidt
#61. Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Brigham Young
#62. My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.
Maya Angelou
#63. There's no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat - draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.
Richard Louv
#64. I am so organized that it's dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can't think clearly. I don't like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me.
Alexa Von Tobel
#65. When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
Dalton McGuinty
#66. Love gives you the strength to face an army, vampire or human ... Love gives you a reason to press on through the storm. Love helps you think clearly and follow the clues ahead, if you know where they lead.
J.X. Burros
#67. Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks must be convinced that in a world as orderly as this there is no room for the words accident and chance.
Harold Percival
#68. Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
Margaret Heffernan
#69. Formerly, in solitude and in silence, he had been used to think clearly and sometimes even profoundly, seeing life outside the flattering optical delusion of everlasting hope, of conventional self-deceptions, of an ever-expected happiness.
Joseph Conrad
#70. How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#71. I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
Gary Shteyngart
#72. Resilience, by its nature, energizes and motivates you and the people around you. Having this internal balance improves your ability to think more clearly, problem solve and make better decisions.
Cynthia Howard
#73. I played a lawyer in a movie, so, many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested.
Reese Witherspoon
#74. J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was interesting to me that he clearly had to know that there was such a thing as organized crime and organized criminals as far back as the '20s.
Terence Winter
#75. If you expect me to read your mind you're going to have to think more clearly.
Spuds Crawford
#76. If the word police want to come and get me, they can come and get me. If someone wants to blog about me, fine. The bloggers can come and get me. I clearly say the n-word in public, eight times. I think that's the count.
Neal Brennan
#77. So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn't apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it
Robert Fulghum
#78. The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.
Paul Park
#79. I think the fact that Anna Nicole [Smith] clearly did not have a great relationship with her mother made the judge very reluctant to allow the mother to decide where she gets buried.
Dan Abrams
#80. Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.
William P. Leahy
#81. Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.
Manmohan Singh
#82. So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.
Carol Moseley Braun
#83. It does seem quite ironic to me that the very people who clearly have made no attempt to think for themselves are always the most vocal in demanding respect for their "ideas".
Pat Condell
#84. If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.
Kurt Vonnegut
#85. Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#86. It's not that I lead this oblivious life where I think I've got such a great personality that people want to spend time with me. If someone has a poster of you or asks for your autograph, clearly you can't take them out on a date. It's not that interesting if someone is just interested in you.
George Clooney
#87. If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.
Natsuki Takaya
#88. When we read our own writing, we all think it clearly expresses what we mean, because when we read it, we are only reminding ourselves of what we had in mind when we wrote it.
Joseph Williams
#89. The central virtue of a liberal education is that it teaches you how to write, and writing makes you think. Whatever you do in life, the ability to write clearly, cleanly, and reasonably quickly will prove to be an invaluable skill.
Fareed Zakaria
#90. I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what others think.
Avril Lavigne
#91. Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so anyone who is consciously trying to pull that off I think is really interesting and clearly very smart.
Carrie Coon
#92. I think if you want to do a thing properly you have to take a lot of care. I've always found it's easier to draw comics if you know clearly in your head what you're drawing, rather than if you try and make it up as you go along.
Dave Gibbons
#93. You weren't making love to a slave, you were making love to me.' And he couldn't think that through clearly but he could catch a glimmer of it, a glimmer of the edge of it. 'I thought you wouldn't, I thought you'd never - ' He took a step forward.
C.S. Pacat
#94. I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting were clearly there to have a moment on television, and that's fine.
Rocco DiSpirito
#95. Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.
Terence McKenna
#96. Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.
Henry David Thoreau
#97. I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought had really come a long way. I thought they were worth singing clearly.
Hamilton Leithauser
#98. I think possibly what people working for one hate the most is indecision. Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision. The most important thing I can do is try and make myself very clearly understood.
Anna Wintour
#99. 'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.
Johnny Depp
#100. It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.
A. N. Wilson
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