Thinking Quotations
|
|||
| Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. | |||
| - Alan Alda | |||
|
|||
| You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think. | |||
| - Walter Anderson | |||
|
|||
| You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| Our job is not to make up anybody's mind, but to open minds and to make the agony of the decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
|
|||
| Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. | |||
| - Ambrose Bierce | |||
|
|||
| How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. | |||
| - Niels Bohr | |||
|
|||
| For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. | |||
| - Luther Burbank | |||
| It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. | |||
| - Luther Burbank | |||
|
|||
| Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. | |||
| - Edmund Burke | |||
|
|||
| Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough. | |||
| - Confucius | |||
|
|||
| I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree. | |||
| - James Douglas | |||
|
|||
| The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. | |||
| - Will Durant | |||
|
|||
| No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity. | |||
| - Henry Van Dyke | |||
|
|||
| The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. | |||
| - Albert Einstein | |||
|
|||
| Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. | |||
| - Havelock Ellis | |||
|
|||
| Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information. | |||
| - John Erskine | |||
|
|||
| Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself. | |||
| - Martin H. Fischer | |||
|
|||
| Our minds are lazier than our bodies. | |||
| - François | |||
|
|||
| Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. | |||
| - Carl G. Jung | |||
|
|||
| What luck for rulers, that men do not think. | |||
| - Adolf Hitler | |||
|
|||
| A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor | |||
| - Victor Hugo | |||
|
|||
| Thinking is what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. | |||
| - William James | |||
|
|||
| Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. | |||
| - John F. Kennedy | |||
|
|||
| People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. | |||
| - Soren Kierkegaard | |||
|
|||
| Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody. | |||
| - Stanislaw J. Lec | |||
|
|||
| Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. | |||
| - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | |||
|
|||
| The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. | |||
| - John Locke | |||
|
|||
| The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés. | |||
| - Henry Louis Mencken | |||
|
|||
| Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. | |||
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | |||
|
|||
| At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat. | |||
| - William Lyon Phelps | |||
|
|||
| Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. | |||
| - Bertrand Russell | |||
|
|||
| Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. | |||
| - George Savile | |||
|
|||
| Few people think no more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week. | |||
| - George Bernard Shaw | |||
|
|||
| Sometimes I think and other times I am. | |||
| - Paul Valéry | |||
|
|||
| Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. | |||
| - Leonardo da Vinci | |||
|
|||
| No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. | |||
| - Voltaire | |||
|
|||
| All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. | |||
| - Thomas Watson | |||
| We must all take time to do enough thinking to formulate our own conclusions. | |||
| - Thomas Watson | |||
|
|||
| The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it. | |||
| - H.G. Wells | |||