“Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time thinking about death.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.”— Malala Yousafzai, amazon.com
“I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.”— Robert Kirkman, amazon.com
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”— Deepak Chopra, books.google.com
“I believe that it is difficult to kill an idea because ideas are invisible and contagious, and they move fast.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“No! Don’t think outside the box! Once you say that, you’ve established that there is a box.”— Walt Disney, amazon.com
“No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.”— John Ruskin, xroads.virginia.edu
“I wish I could say I was the kind of child who watched the moon from her window, would turn toward it and wonder. I never wondered.”— Dorianne Laux, amazon.com
“Throughout history, intellectual life has been marked by the fact that only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody else.”— John Brockman, edge.org
“Thinking deals with invisibles, with representations of things that are absent; judging always concerns particulars and things close at hand.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com