Thinking Quotes

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.

Art Costa

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

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 problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Theodore Rubin

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

Hedrick Smith

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

Bill Peterson, football coach

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

John Maynard Keynes

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.

Albert Einstein

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

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

Donald J. Trump

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

Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.

U. Pete

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.

Emmet Fox

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.

Milo Bloom

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

There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?

William Hart Coleridge

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

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

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

Edward R. Murrow

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Edward Gibbon

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

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

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

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things? but there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice 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.

Tao te Ching, 48. Lao - Tzu

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

Albert Einstein

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.

Akhenaton

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

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

Lao Tzu

Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.

Plato