Thinking Quotes
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.Albert Einstein
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.Kin Hubbard
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.William James
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
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
All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.Adam Richardson
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
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: Why is it so dark in here?Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.Edward Gibbon
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.A. Bronson Alcott
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)
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.Napoleon Bonaparte
That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
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
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
Common - Sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
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
Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.Glen Beaman
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.Ralph Charell
Big thinking precedes great achievement.Wilfred Peterson
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.Phillips Brooks
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.C. H. Parkhurst
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
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Stop thinking, and end your problems.Lao Tzu
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.
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
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
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
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
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.George Orwell
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.Calvin S. Hall
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.David Ogilvie
