„After such treatment it would think twice before coming again, unless it was one of the stubborn ones who returned, carrying the stamp of their mutilation–a missing finger or perhaps a dark line where the medicine man’s razor had cut them.“

— Chinua Achebe

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„Don't think, feel…. it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!“
— Bruce Lee
„Think twice before you speak to a friend in need“
— Ambrose Bierce
„Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.“
— Louisa May Alcott
„nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.“
— Richard Bach
„Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief—that is to say, of no belief. But it wearied them to think that within a few years after their death many cults and systems and prognostications would be ascribed to them which they had never meditated nor intended. So they said to one another:“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.“
— Christopher Paolini
„Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.“
— Virginia Woolf