Thinking Quotes
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - And nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.Elvin Stackman
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.Hedrick Smith
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.Kin Hubbard
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.Bertolt Brecht
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
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
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
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
Diversity the art of thinking independently together.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.John Dewey
Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.Akhenaton
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.Dr. Robert Schulle
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
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.Jerry Seinfeld
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.John M. Keynes
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
I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.Andrew Schneide
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all.William Hart Coleridge
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.Josiah Royce
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.Edward R. Murrow
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
What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: Why is it so dark in here?Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
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 be always part of unanimity.Christopher Morley
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
Orthodoxy means not thinking - Not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.George Orwell, 1984
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.Thomas A. Edison
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
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.David Ogilvie
I always have a quotation for everything - - It saves original thinking.Dorothy L. Sayers
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.Albert Einstein
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.Phaedrus
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.Ralph Charell
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
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking meant for others!Donatien - Alphonse - Francois de Sade
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.Zig Zigla
