Thinks - Quotes
I hope no one reading this book thinks that "The exception proves the rule" means that if you have an exception, it means the rule is true. That`s just bugnutty. I had it explained to me as "The exception tests the rule." Also not true. The exception does not test the rule - it disproves the rule.
Ever hear the saying, Life goes on? It does. Long past the point when everyone else thinks it stopped.
You see what this holiday has become? You see? Everybody thinks the best way to show someone you care is by going into debt. I mean, where is the love? Where's the sharing? Where is the - the true spirit of Christmas?
Skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you`re young. [...] But I don`t think we make any fewer when we`re grown up.
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he`s wrong.
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
When someone is searching, [...] then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal.