Thinking Quotes

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

Theodore Rubin

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

George Orwell

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

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Dr. Jonas Salk

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

High living and high thinking are poles apart.

B. J. Gupta

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

Common - Sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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

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

John Locke

All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.

Adam Richardson

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

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