Thinking Quotes
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
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
No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.Calvin S. Hall
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.Benjamin Disraeli
The third - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.A. A. Milne
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.Alfred A. Montapert
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
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.Archibald Cox
All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.Adam Richardson
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.John Locke
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
Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.Emmet Fox
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
Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.U. Pete
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.Zig Zigla
What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: Why is it so dark in here?Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.James F. Byrnes
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.Diana Rankin
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.Lyndon B. Johnson
I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
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
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
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.Ralph Charell
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.Harold Fricklestein
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
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
Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking.Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality Progress [August 1996]
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.Edward R. Murrow
Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.Glen Beaman
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.Albert Einstein
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.David Joseph Schwartz
Big thinking precedes great achievement.Wilfred Peterson
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
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.Martin Luthe
