Thinking Quotes

Henry ford - thinking is the hardest work there is, which is...
I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.
Erich Fromm
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
William Fullbright
Richard whately - to be always thinking about your manners is not...
Alfred korzybski - there are two ways to slide easily through life...
As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.
Donald J. Trump
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
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
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
Big thinking precedes great achievement.
Wilfred Peterson
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
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
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
No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.
Ronald Reagan
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.
Valdemar W. Setze
Thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break your world by thinking.
Susan S. Taylo
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.
Bill Peterson, football coach
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
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
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
I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
Joan Rivers
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 5, 2003
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
Albert Schweitze
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
Bruce Lee
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.
Terry Josephson
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full - On metamorphosis.
Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
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
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 think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.
Don Mazankowski
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking.
Tony Kushne
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Sir William Bragg