That was what was so likeable about Chidder. He had this enviable ability to avoid thinking seriously about anything he did. (P)
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The Librarian spun around on his bottom a few times, a sure sign of deep thought. (S)
‘Those who wish to tell us how we should think, and sometimes that we shouldn’t even think at all, must be ignored.’ (JD)
'What's up with him?’ said Masklin.
Granny Morkie started to roll bandages in a businesslike way. No one needed them, but she believed in having a good supply. Enough for the whole world, apparently. ‘He’s having to think’’ she said. ‘That always worries people.' (Truck) 'Tak does not require that you think of him, but he does require that you think ...' (RS)
She’d tried being alone with her thoughts once, but had never tried it again. It had been too dull. (BOS)
You need time for big and complicated new concepts to shake themselves down in your brain slowly, without damaging what is already there. (LE)
It was quite easy for Dodger to read her mind; after all, there was such a lot of space there. (Do)
It was often a good idea, Vimes had always found, to give the silly bits of the brain something to do, so they did not interfere with the important ones which had a proper job to fulfil. (Sn)
People often didn't stop to think. They thought as they went along. Sometimes it was a good idea. Just to stop moving, in case you moved the wrong way. (ISWM)
That was the thing about thoughts. They thought themselves, and then dropped into your head in the hope that you would think so too. You had to slap them down, thoughts like that; they would take over if she let them. And then it would all break down, and nothing would be left but the cackling (ISWM)
Glenda and Juliet sat side by side, rocking gently to the sway, lost in their thoughts. At least Glenda was, Juliet could get lost in half a thought, if that. (UA)
The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting ideas in her head. There was such a lot of room in there for them to bounce around and do damage. (UA)
Space he thought. That was the trouble. It was never like this on worlds with everlastingly cloudy skies. But once humans saw all that space, their brains expanded to try and fill it up. (DWCN)
Life gets really complicated if you think too much. (N)
He believed in rational thinking and scientific inquiry, which was why he never won an argument with his mother, who believed in people doing what she told them, and believed it with a rock-hard certainty which dismissed all opposition. (N)
'Why can’t women be Stationeri, then?’ said Grimma.
‘It’s a well-known fact that women can’t read,’ said Gurder. ‘It’s not their fault, of course. Apparently their brains get too hot. With the strain, you know.' (Truck) '... you’ve got a lot of time for abstract thought when you’ve got your hand stuck up in a dead badger.' (JD)
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. (Dig)
'Cunning can do duty for thought up to a point, and then you die.' (MM)
'It's a bad case o’ the thinkin’ he’s caught, missus. When a man starts messin’ wi’the readin’ and the writin’ then he’ll come doon with a dose o’ the thinkin’soon enough. I’ll fetch some o’ the lads and we’ll hold his heid under water until he stops doin’ it, ‘tis the only cure. It can kill a man, the thinkin’.' (HFS)
Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. Third Thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. They’re rare, and often troublesome. Listening to them is part of witchcraft. (HFS)
That's the trouble with a brain: it thinks more than you sometimes want it too. (WFM)
He was a sergeant, he told himself, which meant that he was paid more than a corporal, which meant that he thought more expensive thoughts. (AM)
'Oh, you think too, do you?’ said Hamnpork. ‘Everyone’s thinking these days. I think there’s a good deal too much of this thinking, that’s what I think. We never thought about thinking when I was a lad. We’d never get anything done if we thought first.' (AM)
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