Thinking Quotes
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.Sir William Bragg
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.Terry Josephson
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
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.Dr. Jonas Salk
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?Ronnie Shakes
People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climbe
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
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
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
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
The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.Jean - Francois Rameau
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
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.Albert Einstein, (attributed)
Orthodoxy means not thinking - - Not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.George Orwell, 1984
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.John Kenneth Galbraith
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.John Dewey
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.Theodore Rubin
I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.Don Mazankowski
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.Albert Einstein
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.William Shakespeare
High living and high thinking are poles apart.B. J. Gupta
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.Christopher Morley
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.Demosthenes
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free - Thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.John M. Keynes
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.Albert Einstein
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.Bill Peterson, football coach
As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.Donald J. Trump
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.John Maynard Keynes
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.Jerry Seinfeld
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.George Orwell
Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
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
I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.Joan Rivers
