Thinking Quotes
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.Archibald Cox
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.Calvin S. Hall
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.Barry Switze
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.Plato
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
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.
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
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.Henry M. Wriston
The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.Albert Einstein
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.Alfred North Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.Will Cuppy
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 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
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
Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.Jerome Lettvin
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.Martin Luthe
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.Pete Johnson
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.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.Sir William Bragg
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - Only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.Clive Staples Lewis
Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.Don Mazankowski
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.Kin Hubbard
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.William James
Thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break your world by thinking.Susan S. Taylo
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.Thomas A. Edison
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
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.David Joseph Schwartz
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.John Dewey
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.Albert Einstein
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.David Ogilvie
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.Demosthenes
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
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
