Thinking Quotes

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Albert Einstein, (attributed)

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.

Akhenaton

That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.

F. W. Lawvere

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

John M. Keynes

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

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

Hedrick Smith

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.

Phaedrus

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

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

Albert Szent - Gyorgi

The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

David Ogilvie

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Harold Fricklestein

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

A. Bronson Alcott

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

Terry Goodkind