“I will accept any amount of monsters my mind wants to give to me, but I will not become a monster myself.”— Marissa Meyer, amazon.com
“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much de…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“...common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, amazon.com
“Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.”— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com
“I felt the most burning desire for once to be quite alone with my thoughts for a little while.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.”— Alain de Botton, goodreads.com
“We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.”— Anthony Bourdain, amazon.com
“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul.”— Bram Stoker, amazon.com
“A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.”— Albert Einstein, amazon.com
“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com