Thinking Quotes
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.John Kenneth Galbraith
The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.Milo Bloom
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.Henry David Thoreau
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 conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.Harold Fricklestein
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.Calvin S. Hall
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.
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.Archibald Cox
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.James Ramsey
The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.Albert Einstein
Thinking evil is making evil.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.Horace
Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.Author Unknown
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.William James
The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.George Stanley McGovern
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.C. H. Parkhurst
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
Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.U. Pete
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
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.Edward Gibbon
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.James Carroll
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.Martin Luthe
The third - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.A. A. Milne
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
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
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.Havelock Ellis
People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climbe
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.Albert Szent - Gyorgi
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]
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.Albert Einstein, (attributed)
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
