THINKING QUOTES II
quotations about thinking
Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The ABC of Relativity
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
Those who think must govern those that toil.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Traveller
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
No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
THOMAS L. MASSON
Laughs
If one learns from others but does not think, one is still at a loss. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one is in peril.
CONFUCIUS
The Analects
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
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
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?
The habit of thinking gives an inner life, which all that we see animates and embellishes; in this disposition of the soul everything becomes an object of thought; if the young botanist trembles with joy at the sight of a new plant, the moral botanist joys no less to see germinate around him truths with a much superior prize to that of an unknown flower.
BONSTELLEN
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking.
FRANK LOESSER
"Standing on the Corner", The Most Happy Fella
Individuality in opinion, or, what is more, in thinking, is simply one with thinking at all; for he who thinks thereby looks at the thing or the fact itself and takes its measure by observation directly, not content with the measures of others.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
Essays
Thinking makes the man.
W. A. ALCOTT
attributed, Day's Collacon
Speaking without thinking is shooting without aiming.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
HANNAH ARENDT
The Life of the Mind
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
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