Thinking Quotes
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
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.Horace
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
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
I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking.Dorothy L. Sayers
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
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.George Orwell
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
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.Sydney Smith
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
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.Hedrick Smith
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.Barry Switze
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.Harold Fricklestein
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.Pete Johnson
Thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break your world by thinking.Susan S. Taylo
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.C. H. Parkhurst
The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.Milo Bloom
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.Dr. Jonas Salk
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 continually be part of unanimity.Christopher Morley
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.Matthew Arnold
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
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.Zig Zigla
Orthodoxy means not thinking - - Not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.George Orwell, 1984
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
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.Albert von Szent - Gyorgyi, in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.Jean - Francois Rameau
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.Demosthenes
Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.Jerome Lettvin
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
Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.U. Pete
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
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking meant for others!Donatien - Alphonse - Francois de Sade
