Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Thinking - Quotes

A ‘new think,’ when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought. - F. M. Colby

A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say. - Edgar Watson Howe

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. - Oscar Wilde

A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels. - Albert Einstein

All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Better to think wrongly with your own head, than to think rightly with the head of another. - Ivan Panin

Either you think – or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think. - Thomas Edison

Force a hand ... and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally. - Dan Brown

He who thinks little errs much. - Leonardo da Vinci

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it. - Terry Pratchett

If thou thinkest twice, before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it. - William Penn

In martial arts, as in life, you quickly learn not to think too much. You have to do. While you're thinking, you open spaces where an opponent can successfully strike at you. The more you think, the more vulnerable you become. - Joseph Cardillo

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned. - Edward de Bono

It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills. - Isaac Asimov

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong. - Agatha Christie

One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard. - Fernando Pessoa

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. - Martin Luther king, Jr.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more you think, the more time you have. - Henry Ford

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. - Sherwood Anderson

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try - Dr. Seuss

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions. - Slavoj Zizek

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

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it. - Henry Ford

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. - Dr. APJ Kalam

To cease to think creatively is but little different from ceasing to live. - Benjamin Franklin

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous. - Confucius

To think is to live. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless. - James Fulbright

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. - Mao Tse-Tung

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.’ - Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you are thinking about, you are becoming. - Muhammad Ali

Whatever you do, you must remain nimble in your thinking. Do not become so attached to any one belief that you cannot see past it to another possibility. - Christopher Paolini

You become what you think about. - Buddha

You may glean knowledge by reading, but you must separate the chaff from the wheat by thinking. - John Thornton

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