Thinking Quotes

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

I used to think that having many material things would increase one’s stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don’t make the man at all.

We’re constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We’re finding it where we didn’t think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and other extreme conditions like under arctic ice. We’re finding life in these incredibly harsh and dynamic conditions, so we’re having to re-evaluate our own ideas of what’s possible on this planet alone.

I think we deserve people who really, really love us.

What the head thinks, should be examined critically in the heart and this right decision should be carried out by the hands. This should be the primary product of the educational process.

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.