Thinking Quotes
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.Albert Einstein, (attributed)
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.Harold Fricklestein
If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind.Henry C. Blinn
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
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
A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.Thucydides
The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.Jean - Francois Rameau
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.John Maynard Keynes
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story - Telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.Pete Johnson
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.Albert Einstein
Orthodoxy means not thinking - - Not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.George Orwell, 1984
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.Benjamin Disraeli
That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.F. W. Lawvere
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
If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.Art Costa
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.Terry Josephson
I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.Joan Rivers
I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking.Dorothy L. Sayers
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
To surpress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress... Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.Wendell Willkie
By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.Sir Issac Newton, On how he made discoveries
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.Havelock Ellis
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
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
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.Horace
Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.Albert Szent - Gyorgi
No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.Terry Goodkind
As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.Donald J. Trump
Orthodoxy means not thinking - Not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.George Orwell, 1984
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
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - And nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.Elvin Stackman
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
