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Here's what I suggest, he said. You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.

Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.

Terry Pratchett
Thinking, Promise, Rats

I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

Terry Pratchett
Mistake, Thinking, Weakness
Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter (2012). “The Long Earth: (Long Earth 1)”, p.110, Random House

The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun.

Terry Pratchett
People, Rainbow, Way
"Going Postal". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2004.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

Terry Pratchett
Luck, Stakes, Raises

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

Terry Pratchett
Coward, Would Be, Firsts

He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.

Terry Pratchett
Fall, Angel, People
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.23, Harper Collins

They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers!

Terry Pratchett
Taks

It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.

Terry Pratchett
Thinking About You, Knowing, People
Terry Pratchett (2010). “A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)”, p.331, Random House

See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.

Terry Pratchett
Long, Pins, Picks
FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Apr 24, 2016

You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You might think something’d be good, but for all you know it could have turned out horrible. You can’t say ‘If only I’d…’ because you could be wishing for anything. The point is, you’ll never know. You’ve gone past. So there’s no use thinking about it.

Terry Pratchett
Past, Thinking, Wish
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.235, Random House

You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !

Terry Pratchett
Death, Suicide, Magic

Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.

Terry Pratchett
Cat, People, Poison
"The Unadulterated Cat". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. "Hi," Nigel read aloud, "Do not put down the lamp because your custom is important to us. Please leave a wish after the tone and, very shortly, it will be our command. In the meantime, have a nice eternity."

Terry Pratchett
Nice, Air, Smoking

But ye gotta know where ye're just gonna rush in. Ye cannae just rush in anywhere. It looks bad, havin' to rush oout again straight awa'.

Terry Pratchett
Looks, Knows

What's the orbital velocity of the moon?

Terry Pratchett
Moon, Velocity, Sam Vimes
Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.

Terry Pratchett
Philosophical, Animal, Race
"Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

Thats how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.

Terry Pratchett
Infinity, Bits

Given enough coffee I could rule the world

Terry Pratchett
Coffee, World, Enough

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

Terry Pratchett
Space, Holy Places, Pages

In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the language of the Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu, and means 'Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds'.

Terry Pratchett
Mean, People, Black
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.15, Harper Collins

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

Terry Pratchett
Eagles, One Day, Doe
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.10, Random House

It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of.

Terry Pratchett
Numbers, Directors, Boots

If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

Terry Pratchett
Men, Arrows, Evil

When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it - philosopically speaking - make a noise

Terry Pratchett
Sky, Elephants, Doe

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

Terry Pratchett
Stupid, Thinking, Philosopher
"Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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