Thinking Quotes

Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.

U. Pete

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

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

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

The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

David Ogilvie

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

Donald J. Trump

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

Albert Einstein

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one? s self.

Demosthenes, Olynthiac

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.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

John Maynard Keynes

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

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought What the hell good would that do.

Ronnie Shakes

Thinking evil is making evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.

Phaedrus

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Havelock Ellis

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

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

Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds - - And then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.

Michael Crichton, Prey

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Jerry Seinfeld

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

Joan Rivers

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Edward Gibbon

A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.

Archibald Cox

I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.

Don Mazankowski

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Vernon Howard

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

Demosthenes

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

C. H. Parkhurst

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Martin Luthe

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

William James

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.

Terry Josephson

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

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

William Shakespeare

Diversity the art of thinking independently together.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes