Thinking well to be wise: planning well wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case it is usually at the expense of others. In other words it is the opposite of idealism.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Best to live lightly unthinkingly.

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

Beauty can't amuse you but brainwork - reading writing thinking - can.

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.