Thinking Quotes

Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Bruce Lee

Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.

William Shakespeare

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

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

Dr. Robert Schulle

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

People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.

Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climbe

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

Zig Zigla

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

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

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

The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.

Alexander Pope

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

George Crane

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

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

Albert Einstein

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

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

William Shakespeare

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 be always part of unanimity.

Christopher Morley

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

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

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

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

Thomas A. Edison

Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]

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

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

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

William Fullbright

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

Edward R. Murrow

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

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

George Orwell, 1984

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.

Akhenaton

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

Terry Goodkind

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - And nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

Elvin Stackman

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