Thinking Quotes

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him...

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Thinking is like a fountain. Once it gets going at a certain pressure, well, it almost impossible to...

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommo...

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television s...

I remember going with my mom to a random garage sale as a kid and thinking what a cool treasure hunt...

One thought fills immensity.

I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been crit...

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, ...

Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the mat...

As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thin...

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective me...

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, ...

I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selectio...

My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-h...

Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in a...

My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So ...

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits...

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...

No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, an...

Owl," said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking t...

Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right...

Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out . but thought is irksome and three minutes is...

Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your...

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear a...

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

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...