Thinking Quotes

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

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

Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, mankind should be thinking about getting more use out of the weapons we already have.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

David Joseph Schwartz

That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.

F. W. Lawvere

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

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Benjamin Disraeli

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.

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

The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.

Albert Einstein

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

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.

Pete Johnson

Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking.

Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality Progress [August 1996]

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

Lao Tzu

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - Only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Clive Staples Lewis