Thinking Quotes

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

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

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963

Negative thinking is always expensive - - Dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically - - Hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

Peter McWilliams

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

David Ogilvie

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

John Locke

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Dr. Jonas Salk

The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.

Alexander Pope

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

Terry Pratchett, Eric

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Jerry Seinfeld

Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

Author Unknown

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Albert Einstein

We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

William Fullbright

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

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

John M. Keynes