... laughter helps things slide into thinking. (ISWM)
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... the brain treacherously does not stop thinking just because you want it to... (MR)
The trouble with Polly was that she had a mind that asked questions even when she really, really didn’t want to know the answers. (MR)
People see what they think is there. (MR)
Nanny Ogg changed the way people thought, even if it was only for a few minutes. She left people thinking they were slightly better people. They weren’t, but as Nanny said, it gave them something to live up to. (W)
‘Humanity is a state of mind, not body.’ (DSS)
‘Just because you’ve got a mind like a, a hammer doesn’t mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail.’ (OYCSM)
It takes a long time for anything to happen inside the head of an ox, but, when it does, it happens extensively. (NW)
He was a man whose mind was ponderous enough to have momentum; it was quite hard for his thoughts to change direction. (NW)
'Part of us thinks all kinds of things...' (TOT)
It was dreadful when your own thoughts tried to gang up on you. (HFS)
... if they couldn't bend their thinking around the world, they bent the world around their thinking. (HFS)
'You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.' (AM)
If you thought hard enough, he'd always considered, you could work out everything. The wind, for example. It had always puzzled him until the day he'd realized that it was caused by all the trees waving about. (Truck)
Sometimes you had to turn facts in several directions until you found the right way to fit them in Ridcully's head. (LC)
Thinking
This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you. (N) 'Make them think. Tell them what's got to be done, and let them work out how.' (N)
That's what the gods are! An answer that will do! Because there's food to be caught and babies to be born and life to be lived and so there is no time for big, complicated and worrying answers! Please give us a simple answer, so we don't have to think, because if we think we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be. (N)
A thought could be like a spear. You do not throw a spear at the widow, the orphan, the grieving ... (N)
Everyone in Biers drank alone, even when they were in groups. (H)
When you're a cork in someone else's stream of consciousness, all you can do is spin and bob in the eddies. (LL)
This is what thinking does for you, he thought. It gets you into trouble. Even when you know other people can think for themselves, you start thinking for them too. (AM)
Didactylos’s thoughts chased after one another with a whooshing noise. No wonder he was bald. Hair would have burned off from the inside. (SG)
It was very hard to tell what Vorbis was thinking, often even after he had told you. (SG)
Magrat would be the first to admit that she had an open mind. I was as open as a field, as open as the sky. No mind could be more open without special surgical implements. And she was always waiting for something to fill it up. (WA)
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