Thinking Quotes
Big thinking precedes great achievement.Wilfred Peterson
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
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.James F. Byrnes
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
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
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
No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.Matthew Arnold
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.Bruce Lee
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.Dr. Jonas Salk
He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.Glen Beaman
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.John Locke
Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things? but 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, O Magazine, October 2002
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
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
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
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.William James
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
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 continually be part of unanimity.Christopher Morley
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 only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.Dr. Robert Schulle
Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.U. Pete
I always have a quotation for everything - - It saves original thinking.Dorothy L. Sayers
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.Ralph Charell
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.Albert Einstein
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.Theodore Rubin
