Thinking Quotes
To surpress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress... Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.Wendell Willkie
Orthodoxy means not thinking - - Not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.George Orwell, 1984
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.Horace
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.Albert Einstein
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.William Shakespeare
Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.Michael J. Gel
The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.George Stanley McGovern
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.Bertolt Brecht
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.Ralph Charell
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.Plato
The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.Milo Bloom
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.Albert Einstein, (attributed)
If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.Art Costa
Big thinking precedes great achievement.Wilfred Peterson
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 merely rearranging their prejudices.William James
A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking meant for others!Donatien - Alphonse - Francois de Sade
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.Alfred A. Montapert
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
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
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.William James
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.Theodore Harold White
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.Martin Luthe
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.Eric Butterworth
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.Albert Einstein
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
Thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break your world by thinking.Susan S. Taylo
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.John M. Keynes
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.Albert Schweitze
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.John Locke
As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.Donald J. Trump
I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.Don Mazankowski
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
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
Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.Emmet Fox
