Thinking Quotes
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
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.Terry Josephson
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice 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.Lao - Tzu, Tao te Ching
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
No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.Calvin S. Hall
That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.F. W. Lawvere
By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.Sir Issac Newton, On how he made discoveries
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
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.Ralph Charell
I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.Joan Rivers
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
Orthodoxy means not thinking - - Not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.George Orwell, 1984
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - Nothing.Aesop, The Goose with the Golden Eggs
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.Henry Ford
As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.Donald J. Trump
Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.Author Unknown
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.Kin Hubbard
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.Albert Einstein, (attributed)
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
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
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
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
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.James F. Byrnes
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.Albert Einstein
Big thinking precedes great achievement.Wilfred Peterson
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
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
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
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
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story - Telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.Jerome Lettvin
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.William James
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 bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.Jerry Seinfeld
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
