Thinking Quotes

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one? s self.

Demosthenes, Olynthiac

I always have a quotation for everything - - It saves original thinking.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.

Milo Bloom

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Harold Fricklestein

The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

David Ogilvie

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

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Albert Einstein

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.

Emmet Fox

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

Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

Glen Beaman

Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.

Calvin S. Hall

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

Terry Goodkind

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964

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

STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.

Pete Johnson

What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: Why is it so dark in here?

Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

Hedrick Smith

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

John M. Keynes

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

Ronald Reagan

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

Ralph Charell

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

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4

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

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

Albert Szent - Gyorgi

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....

Richard Bach

People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.

Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climbe

Negative thinking is always expensive - - Dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically - - Hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

Peter McWilliams

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

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

John Kenneth Galbraith

That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.

F. W. Lawvere

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Barry Switze

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.

Akhenaton