Thinking Quotes
Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.William Shakespeare, Hamlet
No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.Terry Goodkind
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.Terry Josephson
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.Erich Fromm
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
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 freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.Matthew Arnold
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.John Maynard Keynes
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
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
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.Archibald Cox
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
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.Glen Beaman
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.Lyndon B. Johnson
Common - Sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.F. W. Lawvere
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.Phaedrus
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.Albert Einstein
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.Napoleon Bonaparte
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.Henry Ford
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.Kin Hubbard
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
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free - Thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.U. Pete
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.Vernon Howard
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
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
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
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.Horace
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.Albert Einstein
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.Valdemar W. Setze
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
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.James F. Byrnes
