Thinking Quotes
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.Napoleon Bonaparte
Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.Kin Hubbard
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
Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.Jerome Lettvin
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
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.George Orwell
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.C. H. Parkhurst
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
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.Albert Einstein
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.John Locke
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.Archibald Cox
No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.Lyndon B. Johnson
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.Terry Pratchett, Eric
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.
Thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break your world by thinking.Susan S. Taylo
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.Horace
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
The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.George Stanley McGovern
I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking.Dorothy L. Sayers
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
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
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
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.Martin Luthe
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.Terry Josephson
Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.Author Unknown
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
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.Francois La Rochefoucauld
I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.Don Mazankowski
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
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]
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
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
As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.Donald J. Trump
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.Bertolt Brecht
