Thinking Quotes

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

We become what we think about all day long. The question is, 'What do you think about?'

So convienent a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

A brain has to digest its food, too.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

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

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

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

What makes us men is that we can think logically. What makes us human is that we sometimes choose not to.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.

If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.

Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Our best thoughts come from others.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.

Thinking is more precious than all five senses.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday and our present thoughts build our life tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.

I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affrims, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and also imagines and senses.

What once was thought can never be unthought.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Reason is experimental intelligence, conceived after the pattern of science, and used in the creation of social arts; it has something to do. It liberates man from the bondage of the past, due to ignorance and accident hardened into custom. It projects a better future and assists man in its realization.

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

To think is to differ.

Rarely do we find men who willingly 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.

Learning without thought is labor lost.

Great spirits have always encountered violent oppostion from mediocre minds.

It is your mind that creates this world.

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.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

I think; therefore I am.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

In the United States the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account.

If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking.

If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

To find yourself, think for yourself.