Thinking Quotes

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

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

George Orwell, 1984

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

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

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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Albert Einstein

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

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Pete Johnson

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

George Orwell

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

Alfred Korzybski

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

Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.

James Ramsey

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Dr. Robert Schulle

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

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

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

James F. Byrnes

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Zigla

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

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

Alfred North Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics (1911)

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

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Harold Fricklestein

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

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

Thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break your world by thinking.

Susan S. Taylo

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

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

Author Unknown

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)

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

William Fullbright

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

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

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

Hedrick Smith

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Will Cuppy

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

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

Edward R. Murrow