The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it. (AM)
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'People ought to think for themselves, Captain Vimes says. The problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to.' (MA)
'Of course, Hex doesn’t actually think. Not as such. It just appears to be thinking.’
‘Ah. Like the Dean,’ said Ridcully. ‘Any chance of fitting a brain like this into the Dean’s head?’ ‘It does weigh ten tons, Archchancellor.’ ‘Ah. Really? Oh. Quite a large crowbar would be in order, then.' (H) That was the trouble with slow people. Give him a fool any day. Slow people took some time to catch up, but when they did they rolled right over you. (MM)
He was incredibly simple, but in the same way that a sword is simple, or an ambush is simple. He was also possibly the most linear thinker in the history of the universe. (TC)
Ridcully was simple-minded. This doesn’t mean stupid. It just meant that he could only think properly about things if he cut away all the complicated bits around the edges. (RM)
... Throat was one of those people who could identify the thought at the other end of the process, in this case I am
now very rich, draw a line between the two, and then think his way along it, slowly and patiently, until he got to the other end. Not that it worked. There was always, he found, some small but vital flaw in the process. It generally involved a strange reluctance on the part of people to buy what he had to sell. (MP) Gods don’t like people not doing much work. People who aren’t busy all the time might start to think. (SG)
'We’ve always looked beyond the walls for the invaders,’ he said. ‘We always thought change came from outside, usually on the point of a sword. And then we look around and find that it comes from the inside of the head of someone you wouldn’t notice in the street. In certain circumstances it may be convenient to remove the head, but there seem to be such a lot of them these days.' (TT)
'A copper doesn’t keep flapping his lip. He doesn’t let on what he knows. He doesn’t say what he’s thinking. No. He watches and listens and he learns and he bides his time. His mind works like mad but his face is a blank. Until he’s ready.' (NW)
'I fink, derefore I am. I fink.' (WMC)
... you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind. (W)
First Sight and Second Thoughts, that’s what a witch had to rely on: First Sight to see what’s really there, and Second
Thoughts to watch the First Thoughts to check that they were thinking right. (W) Am I really a bastard or am I just really good at thinking like one? (MM)
One of the hardest lessons of young Sam’s life had been finding out that the people in charge weren’t in charge.
It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people make instead of thinking. (NW) It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air. (SG)
Logic is a wonderful thing but it doesn’t always beat actual thought. (LC)
He had the look of someone who could think his way through a corkscrew without bending ... (S)
He believed, against all experience, that the world was fundamentally understandable, and that if he could only equip himself with the right mental toolbox he could take the back off and see how it worked. He was, of course, dead wrong. (LF)
'I love the way humans think. They think like songs.' (LL)
Cats didn’t have to think. They just had to know what they wanted. Humans had to do the thinking. That’s what they were for. (AM)
The Library didn’t only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It
also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren’t also dangerous, just because reading them didn’t make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangerous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader’s brain. (SM) Animal minds are simple, and therefore sharp. Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they’ve missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. (ER)
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