Thinking Quotes

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.

William James

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....

Richard Bach

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Wilfred Peterson

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Albert Einstein, (attributed)

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

Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

Ralph Charell

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.

Calvin S. Hall

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Orthodoxy means not thinking - Not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

George Orwell, 1984

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

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

Erich Fromm

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

George Crane

What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking.

Tony Kushne

I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.

Albert Einstein

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Martin Luthe