Thinking Quotes

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

That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.

Calvin S. Hall

A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking meant for others!

Donatien - Alphonse - Francois de Sade

If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.

Art Costa

All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Thomas J. Watson

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

People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.

Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climbe

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

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.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

Thomas A. Edison

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Wilfred Peterson

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Dr. Jonas Salk

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

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

Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.

Plato