Top 100 What We Think Quotes
#1. The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#2. Three things make up who we are as individuals: what we think, what we feel, and what we do. If we manage to change any one of these three aspects of ourselves, the other two will follow.
Rick Cormier
#3. The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
R.D. Laing
#4. In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
Charles Kettering
#5. If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
Ziggy Marley
#6. I believe that President Obama is here for a reason, but that doesn't mean that he has to stay there next year. The American people have an opportunity to have a say and so I think we just have to do what we think is right - and see what the outcome is. God's got a plan.
Vicky Hartzler
#7. If our life has no meaning other than our own happiness, we are likely to find that when we have obtained what we think we need to be happy, happiness itself still eludes us.
Peter Singer
#8. Think of it." Now he is speaking to you, no one but you. "It may not matter what we want for science, or what we think is ethical. All we must do is provide the right environment, and let the heart do what it desires. The heart wants to beat.
Stephen Kiernan
#9. To know what we think, to be masters of our own meaning, will make a solid foundation for great and weighty thought.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#10. What we think, do, and pay attention to changes the structure and functions of our brains!
Chade-Meng Tan
#11. I had learned long ago that resolution by itself is not enough; we are what we do, not what we think and feel.
James Lee Burke
#12. All what we think and know is an illusion. Nothing exists. Everything is an opinion.
Ash Vaz
#13. The purpose of this life and all its experiences is not to make ourselves what we think we should be. It is to unfold who we already are.
Gary Zukav
#14. Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#15. We put on our walls what we think is beautiful or inspiring, and if others think that it is manufactured or shallow, then they need not have it on their walls.
Alexander McCall Smith
#16. We've gotten so good at growing food that we've gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2 percent. We no longer think about how the wonderful things in the grocery store got there, and we'd like to go back to what we think is a more natural way.
Nina Fedoroff
#17. The first step to thinking clearly is to question what we think we know about the past.
Peter Thiel
#18. A large percentage of what we think of when we talk about stress-related diseases are disorders of excessive stress-responses.
Robert M. Sapolsky
#19. Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#20. We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.
Eric Ries
#21. A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.
Donald Miller
#22. What we think often does more to influence the nature of our relationships than what we say or do.
Henry Grayson
#23. Most of us, if we are truly honest with ourselves, have an ever-evolving and ever-growing list of what we think we must change in order to be at peace or to be happy.
Lee L Jampolsky
#24. Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#25. We gauge what we think is possible by what we know from experience, and our acceptance of scientific insights, in particular, is incremental, gained one experience at a time.
Bernd Heinrich
#26. We must lose what we think we know so that we can come to see what we least expect.
Christopher Kimball
#27. One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of knowledge in the world is increasing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know may be widening.
Nate Silver
#28. The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.
Guy Finley
#29. Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.
John Gresham Machen
#30. Gabriel: This is a *travesty* of justice.
Michael: Justice is my father's prerogative. The rest of us ...
Lucifer: The rest of us can only do what we think is *right*.
Mike Carey
#31. we all do what we think is best. Sometimes we make terrible mistakes, sometimes we do the right thing. Sometimes we never know. We just have to hope
Jennifer McMahon
#32. Telling others about oneself is ... no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like
Jerome Bruner
#33. Our guts can really mislead us. Sometimes, what we think of as our gut is something else, like an outside influence. If you're going to buy an apartment and it smells of freshly baked bread, you're more likely to want to buy it.
Noreena Hertz
#34. But if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.
Jodi Picoult
#35. We do what we think we can do. We don't attempt what we think we are incapable of.
Stan Beecham
#36. As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful, only showing what we deem as perfect or what we think our peers will respect.
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
#37. Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.
Peter McWilliams
#38. If we don't really listen, we end up doing what we think is best-- which usually isn't best at all.
S.N. Clemens
#39. Substance is like tree and smartness its shadow. The smartness is what we think it is and the substance is the real thing!
Utpal Vaishnav
#40. The Achiever says his Thoughts led him to Success and the Criminal says his Thoughts led him to Crime. Everybody thinks, but what we Think determines our Destiny.-RVM
R.v.m.
#41. Like the stocks of both Berkshire and Wesco to trade within hailing distance of what we think of as intrinsic value. When it runs up, we try to talk it down. That's not at all common in Corporate America, but that's the way we act.
Charlie Munger
#42. I realise that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves. We build our self out of what we think we remember.
Deirdre Madden
#43. God speaks to us through our conscience. This may be a "still small voice" that will not let us go until we do what we know is right ... we must never silence that inner voice - [but] check what we think it is saying against the Scriptures.
Billy Graham
#44. I think most of us tell ourselves we don't want what we think we can't have just to make life bearable.
Chris Crutcher
#45. Right view is not a concept or belief. ... [It] is simply seeing Reality as it is, here and now, moment after moment[;] ... relying on bare attention ... before conceptual thought arises[;] ... relying on what we actually experience rather than on what we think.
Steve Hagen
#46. If asked for an opinion we'll say what we think. And by "what we think" I mean the answer that comes to our mind first, seems most logical and requires the least amount of effort to articulate, while getting us in the least amount of trouble. Really that's what our communication boils down to.
Aaron Blaylock
#47. Elections have consequences. And I fundamentally believe - this is my personal opinion, I know it's a slightly partisan thing to say - to really do what we think needs to be done, we're going to have to win some elections.
Paul Ryan
#48. People judge us not by what we think or believe, but by what we do - and when our lives don't measure up, we lose their respect and they conclude our faith isn't real.
Billy Graham
#49. The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.
William J. Brennan
#50. What we think, we become. - Buddha
Anonymous
#51. If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.
Dejan Stojanovic
#52. No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do.
Ashly Lorenzana
#53. Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
#54. If we're not careful, mindset, preconception, or subsequent turns can affect even what we think we observed in the first place.
Anonymous
#55. It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George Eliot
#56. Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.
Simon Sinek
#57. We aspire to what we think we can achieve, and what we think we can achieve is influenced by what we see others achieving.
Daniel Isenberg
#58. Each individual garment has its own customizations based on a collaboration between us and the designer. We say what we think our woman wants, and they say, 'This is what we think we can do with our production.'
Aslaug Magnusdottir
#59. CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.
Adora Svitak
#60. The one and only true freedom we ALL possess is what we think; and our intentions govern what we think.
Bryant McGill
#61. When you win a Grammy ... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.
Yolanda Adams
#62. we can develop willpower skills. It's more about strategy than grit or impulses. While we can't control what we think and feel, we can control what we do - which is where strategy comes into play.
Ted Spiker
#63. We should never let our experience influence what we think about our potential.
Zig Ziglar
#64. We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)
Nicholas Carr
#65. The path of peace for us is to hand ourselves over to God and ask Him to search us, not what we think we are, or what other people think we are, or what we persuade ourselves we are or would like to be, but 'Search me out, O God, explore me as I really am in Thy sight.'
Oswald Chambers
#66. What we think today ... we will become tomorrow. So think great and become greater!
Timothy Pina
#67. Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#68. Really, theology is simply what we think about God and then living that truth out in our right-now life.
Sarah Bessey
#69. Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.
Alicia Keys
#70. What we think is more important in life, is just an excuse for not trying hard enough for what is right in front of us ...
Donna M. Zadunajsky
#71. Our heads have a nasty habit of ruining what can make us happiest. And there are times in our lives when you have to put aside what we think is best and do with what you feel is best.
A Meredith Walters
#72. I have come to the progressive realization that what we think is what we become.
Ndiritu Wahome
#73. Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
Terence McKenna
#74. Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things Keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship. It is no secret I tell you, nor am I ashamed to declare it: I have liked to be with you, to see you, to speak with you always.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#75. When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it's a formula for misery.
Suzanne Selfors
#76. Every person is the master of his or her own destiny. What we think about alters our character. Our character organizes our personality, and our personality scripts how successfully we interact with other people and respond to a changing environment.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#77. We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.
Gordon Livingston
#78. What our lives looked like on the surface may be some people's idea of perfect.But beneath the surface is where the important stuff is. We all need to be on the same page - do we want to adhere to what society thinks is perfect? Or do we want what we think is perfect?
Kelly Jamieson
#79. Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.
Krister Stendahl
#80. In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.
Diane Johnson
#81. Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.
Jimmy Fallon
#82. Morality, on the other hand, as Immanuel Kant insisted, is ultimately practical: though it matters morally what we think and feel, morality is, at its heart, about what we do.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#83. We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.
Oliver Sacks
#84. Life it seems a struggle between what we think and what we see
Dave Matthews
#86. That's what we think because we can't imagine what it's like to not exist.
Cath Crowley
#87. We get a feeling, if we can, about what we think the company is worth.
Walter Schloss
#88. All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what can you trust?
Richelle Mead
#89. what we think of when we envision the human past is partly a myth that tells more about where we think we're going wrong with our own lives today than anything that happened thousands and thousands of years ago.
Brenna Hassett
#91. What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.
Robert M. Pirsig
#92. We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.
David Richo
#93. What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.
R.D. Laing
#94. I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy. Books have the power to change lives: what we think and what we do.
Eric Walters
#95. I bet you're worried. I was worried. I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them.
Eve Ensler
#96. Sometimes what we think will make us happy is the opposite of what God wants for us.
Craig Groeschel
#97. It is only after surrendering what we think our lives are supposed to be that we can step into everything that our lives are meant to be.
Mandy Hale
#98. Sexual violence often doesn't look like what we think of as "violence" - only rarely is there a gun or knife; often there isn't even "aggression" as we typically think of it. There is coercion and the removal of the targeted person's choice about what will happen next.
Emily Nagoski
#99. We must be before we can do, and we can do only to the extent which we are, and what we are depends upon what we think.
Charles F. Haanel
#100. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.
Thomas Merton
