Thinking Quotes

That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking.

Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all.

A meal should always lie lightly on the estomac," said Poirot. "It should not be so heavy as to para...

Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking.""An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinki...

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always w...

What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's go...

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to informat...

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we bec...

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spiritu...

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my ...

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upo...

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image...

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Humor, motivations, moral,gods,energy,secrecy

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift ...

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing ...

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matt...

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are mode...

Each one sees what he carries in his heart.

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting to...

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real forc...

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

I thought I would stand myself a little dinner. I hadn't quite enough sense to know that what I real...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated ...

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

Perhaps trust had to be accompanied by a measure of common sense, and a hefty dose of realism about ...

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force fou...

...M. Danglars, who had listened to all this preamble with imperturbable coolness, but without under...

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, th...

I'm not a robot. I'm a freak of the universe ... a thinking animal ... and I'm trying to see my way ...

Those ignorant "masters of our destinies" who regard humans as animals or as monstrous hybrids of na...

There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everythi...

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without t...

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what ...

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to...

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thi...

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

I think the political class in Berlin doesn't need to be supervised and monitored by intelligence se...

I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.

A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something rela...

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into diff...

But the character of a man is not to be judged from the pictures which he may draw or from the antic...

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart...

Happiness is activity of soul.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will ...

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to piece...

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer a...

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, ...

Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given t...

What you think is an illusion created by your glands your emotions and in the last analysis by th...

Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a m...

Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is t...

Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the sour...

A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values t...

A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to prot...

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Righ...

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. ...

There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value.All...

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent t...

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call ‘free will’ i...

Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action,...

Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world...

Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of exist...

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice — and the alternative hi...

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification...

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for hi...

Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death. Happiness is that state of con...

Sweep aside those hatred-eaten mystics, who pose as friends of humanity and preach that the highest ...

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free t...

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an enti...

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is t...

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is o...

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence...

Man’s life is the standard of morality, but your own life is its purpose . If existence on earth is ...

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his h...

Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or no...

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth a...

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing...

No, you do not have to live as a man; it is an act of moral choice. But you cannot live as anything ...

At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!

Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does ...

Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot e...

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But b...

Don’t you know that most people take most things because that’s what’s given them, and they have no ...

The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day w...

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosoph...

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for...

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death.

The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason ...

Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in t...