Robert Asprin Quotes

Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.

Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.

Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin

Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking.

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

It hurts that, you know, the media's made me into sort of this like punching bag or cartoon character-they think that I don't have any feelings, and, you know, it hurts like anyone else.

The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

Truth can hurt so very much.

How many situations can be resolved with less thinking?

Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out [how] to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.

People don't like to hear the truth out here cause the truth makes them think.

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

You can't ever stop thinking something quick enough. Something that hurts always gets the knife in too fast for you to slam a lid on it and shove it away.

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

I realized that, to a large degree, I had kept my rational mind at bay my whole life. I just acted on intuition in terms of how I related to life. At some point, my rational mind started creeping in, and it would not shut up. I finally had to address it and confront it. I think most intelligent people, at a younger age than I have, begin to question some of the fundamental assumptions our society promotes. But me, I just rejected it without even considering it.

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.