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.