Thinking Quotes
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.David Ogilvie
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.U. Pete
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
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
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
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut 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
All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.Adam Richardson
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
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.John Maynard Keynes
A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.Thucydides
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
If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.Art Costa
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full - On metamorphosis.Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.William James
People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climbe
Negative thinking is always expensive - - Dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically - - Hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.Peter McWilliams
Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
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
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.Lao - Tzu
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
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
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
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.Jerry Seinfeld
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.Henry M. Wriston
By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.Sir Issac Newton, On how he made discoveries
I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking.Dorothy L. Sayers
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.Albert Einstein
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.Theodore Rubin
Diversity the art of thinking independently together.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.Albert Schweitze
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
Orthodoxy means not thinking - Not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.George Orwell, 1984
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.Zig Zigla
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.Demosthenes
