Thinking Quotes

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Sir William Bragg

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Dr. Jonas Salk

Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.

James Ramsey

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

Sydney Smith

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

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

Alfred Korzybski

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.

Calvin S. Hall

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - And nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

Elvin Stackman

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

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - Nothing.

Aesop, The Goose with the Golden Eggs

The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.

Alexander Pope

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

I always have a quotation for everything - - It saves original thinking.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Phaedrus

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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

Terry Goodkind

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

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Albert Einstein