Thinking Quotes
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
All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.Adam Richardson
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.Phaedrus
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
High living and high thinking are poles apart.B. J. Gupta
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - And nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.Elvin Stackman
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
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.
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
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
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.Terry Pratchett, Eric
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
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.Dr. Robert Schulle
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.Josiah Royce
I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.Don Mazankowski
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.Vernon Howard
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.Thomas J. Watson
Stop thinking, and end your problems.Lao Tzu
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.John Kenneth Galbraith
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.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.Edward R. Murrow
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.John M. Keynes
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.John Maynard Keynes
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.Edward Gibbon
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.Eric Butterworth
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.Theodore Harold White
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.Terry Goodkind
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.Albert Schweitze
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
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.David Ogilvie
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.William James
If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.Art Costa
What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: Why is it so dark in here?Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
