Terry Pratchett Quotes

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.

I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.

I think it's important for people like me to evaluate and reevaluate.

It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous "echo" to all that we think and feel as the box of a violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and flat.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

Thought is the thought of thought.

It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.

Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you realize that it changes things. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry.

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

I am the thought you are now thinking.

I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!

I think and that is all that I am.

I try not to be overly analytical.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

Think before you act and act on what you believe.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

We only half live when we only half think

As I matured, I became a smarter person, a more sensitive person, a more thinking person.

I'm the type of person, my mind is too strong; I think too hard.