Terry Pratchett Quotes

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.

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

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

I do a lot of thinking about my work while I'm walking. More in the early morning when I'm trekking in the mountains. When I'm walking in the city, I think more about people around me - my brothers, my wife, some business situation, commitments.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.

Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.

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.

I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.

My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

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.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that we live in order to think, but the opposite isn't true either—that we think in order to live. I believe, contrary to Descartes, that we sometimes think in order not to be. Staring into space might unintentionally have the opposite effect.