Thinking Quotes
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.Evelyn Underhill
No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.Terry Goodkind
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.Napoleon Bonaparte
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.Dr. Robert Schulle
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
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.Havelock Ellis
Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.Author Unknown
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.John M. Keynes
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Common - Sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.Adam Richardson
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.Thomas A. Edison
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.Lyndon B. Johnson
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.Albert Einstein
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
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
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
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.Albert Einstein
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
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.Martin Luthe
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
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.Richard Whately
Big thinking precedes great achievement.Wilfred Peterson
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.Barry Switze
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
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
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 general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.Alexander Pope
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.Lao - Tzu
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
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
The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.Norse Proverb, Myth and Meaning page 72
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.Josiah Royce
High living and high thinking are poles apart.B. J. Gupta
