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Thinking Quotes

The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true.
Nisargadatta Maharaj : thinking quotes


No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.  
Voltaire : thinking quotes


Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.  
Edmund Burke : thinking quotes


Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.  
Carl G. Jung : thinking quotes


Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.  
Lorraine Hansberry : thinking quotes


No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.  
Terry Josephson : thinking quotes


You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.  
Walter Anderson : thinking quotes

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?  
Winnie the Pooh : thinking quotes


People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.  
Soren Kierkegaard : thinking quotes


Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.  
John F. Kennedy : thinking quotes


The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.  
Will Durant : thinking quotes


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 : thinking quotes


I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.  
James Douglas : thinking quotes


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 : thinking quotes


Our minds are lazier than our bodies.  
François : thinking quotes


Invest a few moments in thinking.  It will pay good interest.  
Author Unknown : thinking quotes


Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory.  
G. Behn : thinking quotes


Thinking is like loving and dying.  Each of us must do it for himself.  
Josiah Royce : thinking quotes


It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.  
Luther Burbank : thinking quotes


Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself.  
Martin H. Fischer : thinking quotes


We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.  
L'Estrange : thinking quotes


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.  
Author Unknown : thinking quotes


Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.  
Havelock Ellis  : thinking quotes


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.  
H.L. Mencken, Prejudices : thinking quotes


Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week.  
George Bernard Shaw : thinking quotes


...the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it...  
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare : thinking quotes

Belief is when someone else does the thinking.  
Buckminster Fuller : thinking quotes


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 : thinking quotes


A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson : thinking quotes


Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man.  But they don't bite everybody.  
Stanislaw Lec : thinking quotes


Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
G.C. Lichtenberg : thinking quotes


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


Brain, n.  An apparatus with which we think that we think.  
Ambrose Bierce : thinking quotes


At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.  
William Lyon Phelps : thinking quotes


It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.  
Stanley Kubrick : thinking quotes


We are dying from overthinking.  We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything.  Think.  Think.  Think.  You can never trust the human mind anyway.  It's a death trap.  
Anthony Hopkins : thinking quotes


One cannot think crooked and walk straight.  
Author Unknown : thinking quotes


Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.  
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare : thinking quotes

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 : thinking quotes


Tell your friends not to think aloud
Until they swallow.
Nickelback : thinking quotes


Believing is easier than thinking.  Hence so many more believers than thinkers.  
Bruce Calvert : thinking quotes


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 quotes


Sometimes I think and other times I am.  
Paul Valéry : thinking quotes

Few minds wear out; more rust out.  
Christian N. Bovee : thinking quotes


From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm
Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone,
But rush upon me thronging.

John Milton : thinking quotes


We use 10% of our brains.  Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60%.  
Ellen Degeneres : thinking quotes


Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.  
John Erskine : thinking quotes


Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.  
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche : thinking quotes


If a man's stomach has been filled by eating greens and other vegetables, although the most precious dainties with exquisite tastes should be given him, he cannot swallow them, he must first get rid of a few portions of the greens; so in reading, the same is true of the mixed thoughts which distract the mind, which are about the dusty affairs of a vulgar world.  
Robert Morrison : thinking quotes

Men can live without air a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for about two months - and without a new thought for years on end.  
Kent Ruth : thinking quotes


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 : thinking quotes

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.  
George Savile  : thinking quotes

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.  
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare : thinking quotes

Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action.  Twice would have been quite enough.  
Confucius : thinking quotes


Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew.  They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming.  But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.  
Steve Allen : thinking quotes


What luck for rulers, that men do not think.  
Adolph Hitler : thinking quotes


Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.  
Voltaire : thinking quotes


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 : thinking quotes


[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.  
William James : thinking quotes


For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.  
Luther Burbank : thinking quotes


How wonderful that we have met with a paradox.  Now we have some hope of making progress.  
Niels Bohr : thinking quotes


You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.  
Author Unknown : thinking quotes


He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.  
William Drummond : thinking quotes

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.  
Howard Mumford Jones  : thinking quotes