Top 100 Thinks He Quotes
#1. Americans want to win; bin Laden thinks he's winning now.
John McCain
#2. A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. Entitlement is: The man who thinks he is above all the rules. The woman who feels mistreated and needs others to make it up to her.
John Townsend
#4. The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.
Gautama Buddha
#5. Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
Honore De Balzac
#6. The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what's best for you.
David J. Lieberman
#7. Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin Franklin
#8. When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely.
Pierre Alechinsky
#9. A person who thinks he is right, causes great hurt to others and that is why hurt will come to him. A person who believes 'I am right', causes a lot of pain to others.
Dada Bhagwan
#10. Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but every person is different, living in his own psychology.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#11. A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't," Finn replied absently, still looking down at the book.
"That's such a fortune-cookie answer," I said with a laugh, and even he smirked at me.
Amanda Hocking
#12. The ayatollah in Iran says he believes that he got the letter, but he thinks he accidentally threw it out with his Crate & Barrel catalog.
David Letterman
#13. Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.
Rita Rudner
#14. Holding the phone away from his mouth, Gansey told them, "Adam thinks he saw an apparition at his place."
Ronan eyed Noah. "I'm seeing an apparition right now." Noah made a rude gesture, a hilariously unthreatening act coming from him, like a growl from a kitten.
Maggie Stiefvater
#15. He will experience that prickle, that shiver of disgust that afflicts him in both his happiest and most wretched moments, the one that asks him who he thinks he is to inconvenience so many people, to think he has the right to keep going when even his own body tells him he should stop.
Hanya Yanagihara
#16. I can take a joke," she tells me, sounding insulted.
"Yeah? When?"
"When it's not being delivered by a childish jackass who thinks he's God's gift to women."
"I am not childish." God's gift on the other hand? My record speaks for itself.
"Oh, bite me."
I wish.
Emma Chase
#17. The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.
Joseph Campbell
#18. (On Captain Britain) Every British person thinks he's got the same accent as them. The air around him is warm like a summer meadow. He smells of honey. I've seen grown men weep at the sight of him.
Paul Cornell
#20. Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.
Lu Xun
#21. He isn't my man."
"Girl, it don't matter you don't think he is, he thinks he is. Therefore in Badass Motherfucker Land, that means he is.
Kristen Ashley
#22. The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one
soul, and he has got dozens.
D.H. Lawrence
#23. Anytime you have anyone who thinks he or she has God in their pocket, you have the potential for disaster, ... Throughout history, the claim that God is on your side has been used to justify any action, no matter how violent or destructive.
Charles Kimball
#24. But why should he be open-minded when he thinks he's right?
Johnny Rich
#25. Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet decides these things, here in the modern age.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#26. Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.
Jean De La Bruyere
#27. In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others.
Katherine Howe
#28. Man's life is entirely in his operations, which may all be classed under three heads: he thinks, he feels, and he acts
these three modes of activity exhaust his powers.
William Batchelder Greene
#29. An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
Agnes Repplier
#30. He doesn't really know, Alex. He thinks he's in control, but he's not. Don't ... don't believe everything you hear. There's still hope.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#31. Am I an old man who changed into a butterfly, or a butterfly who thinks he was once an old man?
Dennis Vickers
#32. I hope you know Cash is in the kitchen making a to-do list for me and Elliot. You let him play boss for ten minutes and he suddenly thinks he's Hillary Clinton.'~ Leon Montgomery
Destiny Booze
#33. MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
Ambrose Bierce
#34. Physically, he is recovering quite fast ... emotionally, he is a mess. He thinks he could have stopped it from happening.
Daniele Lanzarotta
#35. You see, fallen man, in his pride, either thinks he has not fallen at all or that he can lift himself up, by himself, and make himself righteous on his own merits.
Matthew Christian Harding
#36. I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken,
Townes Van Zandt
#37. No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.
Sara Raasch
#38. Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks [...] He wonders if the poem of the circus could possibly be bottled.
Erin Morgenstern
#39. Most fools think he is the wisest person but the most wise person thinks he is a fool.
Debasish Mridha
#40. I am not holier than you, you are not holier than me. Any one who thinks he is holier than the rest deludes himself.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#42. No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.
Jim Morrison
#43. Gary nips my finger and starts clawing his way up my shoulder, hissing like an angry kettle. It's just not natural for something so cute and fluffy to be so nasty.
I look at Nick in distress. "Why is he spitting at me?"
"Maybe he thinks he's a llama.
Holly Smale
#44. Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
Miguel De Unamuno
#45. He's never taught to dance, and yet he's guiding me.He dosen't notice because he's concentrating so hard on what he dosen't have
what he thinks he can't do
Ally Condie
#46. The pursuer's blind spot is that he never thinks he's being pursued.
Haruki Murakami
#47. Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
Rene Descartes
#48. What's the difference between you and God? God never thinks he's you.
Anne Lamott
#49. But the irony is they think they're being tough on ISIS and Trump thinks he's being tough on ISIS. Senator Rubio in his interview with you touched on it very, very lightly.
Ted Koppel
#50. Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
B.C. Forbes
#51. If anyone thinks he has no responsibilities, it is because he has not sought them out.
Mary Lyon
#52. If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
Ben Stein
#53. The man who is satisfied, because he thinks he is safe, who feels that he has religion enough, because he thinks he has enough to save him from hell, is as ignorant of the power as he is a stranger to the consolation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Gardiner Spring
#54. A solitary Christian who thinks he can live independently of the church functions about as well as a thumb severed from its hand.
Jen Pollock Michel
#55. There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
Henry Ford
#56. The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cezanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he's alive forever, this instant, and may be.
Wendell Berry
#57. Jackson is so busy following the rules and doing everything he thinks he's supposed to do that he doesn't really ever live.
Sierra Avalon
#58. A man goes to a psychiatrist and says, "My brother's gone crazy. He thinks he's a chicken." And the psychiatrist says, "Have you told him he's not a chicken?" The man replies, "I would, but we need the eggs.
Tina Fey
#59. Generals aren't in the business of commenting on the correctness or incorrectness of the President's decisions. Anybody who thinks he should be able to do that ought to be fired on the spot.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#60. The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
Jacques Delors
#61. Stop it!" Chas shrieked, stomping her foot. "I will not have my boyfriend fighting if it's not over me! Stop it!"
"Let's say it's over you!" Tom grunted as he and Coalhouse wrestled with one another. "If he thinks he's gonna finally get a girl, he might grow balls enough to beat me!
Lia Habel
#62. Anywhere. But he's out of his fucking mind if he thinks he's getting my Smurf.
J.A. Huss
#63. He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
Seneca The Younger
#64. If he thinks he's never competed with clothes before, than his girl friends have ben lying to him.
Sophie Kinsella
#65. It is said that the difference between God and us is that God never thinks he is us. Genesis suggests some nuancing of that insight. God doesn't mind sharing with us the divine life and the divine image and thus the divine responsibility for the world, and eventually God will become one of us.
John E. Goldingay
#66. See? The moment you quit chasing him, that's when he wants you. He looks jealous. He thinks he's been replaced.
Amy Harmon
#67. Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
P. J. O'Rourke
#68. Rich is he who thinks he is rich and poor is he who thinks he is poor.
Emile Coue
#69. President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things.
Maureen Dowd
#70. This is so ... I want to think wrong, but somehow it's not. It's right for Christian. It's what he wants - and after the last few days ... after all he's done, I have to man up and take whatever he decides he wants, whatever he thinks he needs.
E.L. James
#71. Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.
John Hay
#72. Any man who thinks he knows the mind of a woman is a man who knows nothing.
Robert Evans
#73. So the little bastard thinks he one-upped me with his little erotic-nympho shower performance. I'll show him, and soon.
A.E. Via
#74. I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.
David Foster Wallace
#75. Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.
Idries Shah
#76. Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.
Gordon Strachan
#77. My friend Annabel calls it "Reverse Perfectionism" - if a man thinks he can't do something perfectly, he'd rather not do it at all ...
Shelli NT
#78. Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
Mark Twain
#79. He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.
Don DeLillo
#80. Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.
George Herbert
#81. The less a creature thinks he is, the more he bears. And if he thinks he is nothing, he bears everything.
Antonio Porchia
#82. One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.
Eugene McCarthy
#83. It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.
Mark Twain
#84. The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?
Henry Ford
#86. A simple fuck is one thing, but let a man sleep with you just once and he thinks he can bring his dog and his pigeons.
Michel Faber
#87. There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears tiny underwear!
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#88. He should be worried about playing the game, not innovating it. He thinks he's Brett Hull or something. You should remind him that he didn't go to college. He's a junior (hockey) guy. So he's not that bright.
Garth Snow
#89. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
Eddie Marsan
#90. Josh looks like a lot of things. He changes his physical form constantly. In this way he is unlike most boys his age. He thinks he is several things at once, many of them contradictory. In this way he is like most boys his age.
Joseph Fink
#91. Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. ... Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc., just because he wants speed.
Erik Naggum
#92. And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to a movement for each person and open for everybody.
Willem De Kooning
#93. My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: It can't be done.
John Scarne
#94. There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.
David Bowie
#95. If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
C.S. Lewis
#96. He is not a man wedded to action, Boleyn, but rather a man who stands by, smirking and stroking his beard; he thinks he looks enigmatic, but instead he looks as if he's pleasuring himself.
Hilary Mantel
#97. An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.
Bob Dylan
#98. Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!
Muhammad Ali
#99. The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.
Paul The Apostle
#100. Apollo nodded and Dionysus bowed to the room, sweeping his arms out to the sides with a flourish. And then he was gone.
I shook my head. "Okay. Who else thinks he was high as a kite?"
Hands went up across the room and I grinned.
Jennifer L. Armentrout