Thinking Quotes
The third - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.A. A. Milne
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.Josiah Royce
Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.Glen Beaman
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
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
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.Albert Einstein
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.Ralph Charell
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking.Tony Kushne
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 unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
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.
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.Plato
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.Henry Ford
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
All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.Adam Richardson
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.William James
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
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.John Maynard Keynes
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.Jerry Seinfeld
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.Eric Butterworth
Stop thinking, and end your problems.Lao Tzu
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.Richard Whately
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.Pete Johnson
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - And nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.Elvin Stackman
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
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
The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.Milo Bloom
The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 5, 2003
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.Demosthenes
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.John Kenneth Galbraith
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.Phillips Brooks
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.Thomas A. Edison
Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.U. Pete
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.Havelock Ellis
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice 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.Tao te Ching, 48. Lao - Tzu
Orthodoxy means not thinking - Not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.George Orwell, 1984
