Thinking Quotes
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.Ralph Charell
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.John Locke
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.Edward R. Murrow
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.Thomas J. Watson
I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.Andrew Schneide
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.Albert Einstein
Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.Jerome Lettvin
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.C. H. Parkhurst
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.Plato
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
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.Archibald Cox
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
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
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
Thinking evil is making evil.Friedrich Nietzsche
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.Hedrick Smith
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.Albert Einstein, (attributed)
I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.Don Mazankowski
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.William James
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
Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.John Dewey
If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind.Henry C. Blinn
Stop thinking, and end your problems.Lao Tzu
That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.F. W. Lawvere
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.Terry Josephson
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.Martin Luthe
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 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
No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.Edward Gibbon
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.Pete Johnson
Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds - - And then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.Michael Crichton, Prey
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.John Kenneth Galbraith
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
