Thinking Quotes

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

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 significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Albert Einstein

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

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

Thomas A. Edison

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

Lao - Tzu, Tao te Ching

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

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

Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climbe

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Wilfred Peterson

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Thomas J. Watson

High living and high thinking are poles apart.

B. J. Gupta

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 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

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

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

John Dewey

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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