#inking

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#bookstores #history #literature #philosophy #reading

Next to music beer was best. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#music #music

Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought. ↗

— Yip Harburg

#singing #songs #thinking #music

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#logical-thinking #science #nature

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense. ↗

— Criss Jami

#human #human-nature #judging #judgmental #logic

Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#liquor #poetry #sadness #sad

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#strategy #thinking #action

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#willful-ignorance #die

Stop thinking, and end your problems. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#problems

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink. ↗