Thinking Quotes
Thinking evil is making evil.Friedrich Nietzsche
Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.Akhenaton
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.David Ogilvie
I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.Joan Rivers
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought What the hell good would that do.Ronnie Shakes
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
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?Ronnie Shakes
High living and high thinking are poles apart.B. J. Gupta
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.Kin Hubbard
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
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
The third - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.A. A. Milne
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.Dr. Robert Schulle
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.John Dewey
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.Albert Einstein
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.Kin Hubbard
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
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
The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.Norse Proverb, Myth and Meaning page 72
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.C. H. Parkhurst
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.Archibald Cox
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice 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.Lao - Tzu, Tao te Ching
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.Harold Fricklestein
Diversity the art of thinking independently together.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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
What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: Why is it so dark in here?Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.James F. Byrnes
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
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.Albert Einstein
Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.Glen Beaman
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.Francois La Rochefoucauld
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.Lao - Tzu
The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 5, 2003
