Thinking Quotes
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.Alfred A. Montapert
I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking.Dorothy L. Sayers
Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice 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.Lao - Tzu, Tao te Ching
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.Albert Einstein
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.John Kenneth Galbraith
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]
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.Plato
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 general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.Alexander Pope
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.Edward Gibbon
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
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.Vernon Howard
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.Albert von Szent - Gyorgyi, in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, mankind should be thinking about getting more use out of the weapons we already have.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.Author Unknown
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
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.A. Bronson Alcott
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.Harold Fricklestein
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.Josiah Royce
Orthodoxy means not thinking - Not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.George Orwell, 1984
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.Kin Hubbard
I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.Donald J. Trump
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
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.David Joseph Schwartz
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.Calvin S. Hall
Orthodoxy means not thinking - - Not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.George Orwell, 1984
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.Terry Josephson
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
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
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.George Orwell
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - Only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.Clive Staples Lewis
All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.Adam Richardson
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.Bill Peterson, football coach
