THINKING QUOTES II
quotations about thinking
Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.
KURT VONNEGUT
The Sirens of Titan
Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The ABC of Relativity
Those who think must govern those that toil.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Traveller
A thinking that approaches its objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules prescribed to it by organized knowledge. It ... rends the veil with which society conceals them, and perceives them anew.
THEODOR W. ADORNO
Why Still Philosophy?
No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
THOMAS L. MASSON
Laughs
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.
SIGMUND FREUD
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
The old illustration of the glass being half-full or half-empty is a timeless truth. We have the choice to think negative thoughts or positive thoughts. Whichever we choose will have a direct influence on what we do and say.
BILLY HOLLAND
"Optimistic thinking is a learned behavior", Winchester Sun, May 12, 2017
Half the trouble in the world arises because you can't stop people from thinking, and the other half because you can't start them.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Better to think wrongly with your own head, than to think rightly with the head of another.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Ours is an age which is proud of machines that think, and suspicious of the men who try to.
HOWARD MUMFORD JONES
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
We never think entirely alone; we think in company, in a vast collaboration; we work with the workers of the past and of the present.
ANTONIN SERTILLANGES
The Intellectual Life
Many a man who thinks he is thinking, is merely digesting yesterday's newspaper.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Not out of right practice comes right thinking, but out of right thinking comes right practice. It matters enormously what you think. If you think falsely, you will act mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your thinking.
ANNIE BESANT
Daily Meditations on the Path and Its Qualifications
Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Pig-Pen Pete
If thou thinkest twice, before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
Speaking without thinking is shooting without aiming.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking.
FRANK LOESSER
"Standing on the Corner", The Most Happy Fella
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
HANNAH ARENDT
The Life of the Mind