Thinking Quotes
The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.Milo Bloom
I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.Eric Butterworth
Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds - - And then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.Michael Crichton, Prey
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.Henry M. Wriston
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.Sydney Smith
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story - Telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind.Henry C. Blinn
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.Ralph Charell
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.Theodore Harold White
Common - Sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.John Dewey
If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.Art Costa
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.Lao - Tzu
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.Theodore Isaac Rubin
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.Dr. Robert Schulle
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.Diana Rankin
Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.James F. Byrnes
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.Archibald Cox
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.William James
That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.F. W. Lawvere
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
To surpress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress... Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.Wendell Willkie
As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.Donald J. Trump
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.Albert Einstein
The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.Norse Proverb, Myth and Meaning page 72
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.Erich Fromm
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.Tao te Ching, 48. Lao - Tzu
All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.Adam Richardson
Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking.Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality Progress [August 1996]
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.Will Cuppy
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.Francois La Rochefoucauld
