Thinking Quotes
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
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
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story - Telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
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
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.Donald J. Trump
Big thinking precedes great achievement.Wilfred Peterson
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
Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.Glen Beaman
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
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.Dr. Robert Schulle
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.Thomas A. Edison
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
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
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
The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.Jean - Francois Rameau
Thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break your world by thinking.Susan S. Taylo
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
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.George Orwell
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.Henry Ford
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.William Shakespeare
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.Matthew Arnold
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.Albert von Szent - Gyorgyi, in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.Horace
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964
Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.Author Unknown
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.William Shakespeare
A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking meant for others!Donatien - Alphonse - Francois de Sade
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
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.Diana Rankin
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
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
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.David Joseph Schwartz
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.Benjamin Disraeli
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
