Terry Pratchett Thinking Quotations [Page 2]

Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up.

We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am.

Please give us a simple answer, so that 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

History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it