Thinking Quotes
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.Dr. Robert Schulle
He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.F. W. Lawvere
Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.Akhenaton
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
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
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.William James
Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.Author Unknown
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
If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.Art Costa
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.Phillips Brooks
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.Pete Johnson
A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.Thucydides
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.Hedrick Smith
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
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
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
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
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.William James
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
Orthodoxy means not thinking - Not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.George Orwell, 1984
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
Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.Jerome Lettvin
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
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
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
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.Thomas A. Edison
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.Phaedrus
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
Diversity the art of thinking independently together.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.Albert Szent - Gyorgi
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
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
Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.Michael J. Gel
