A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people
are still thinking.
-Jerry Seinfeld
A conclusion is simply the place where someone decided to stop thinking.
-Variously
attributed
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
-Frank
McKinney (Kin) Hubbard
A king can stand people's fighting, but he can't last long if people
start thinking.
-Will Rogers
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial
appearance of being right.
-Thomas Paine
A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I. I
believe everything positively stinks.
-Lew Col
A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move
toward higher levels.
-Albert Einstein
All thinking men are atheists.
-Ernest Hemingway
An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
-Theodore
Sturgeon
An expert is a man who has stopped thinking- he knows!
-Frank
Lloyd Wright
And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about
the beginning, it's the end.
-Junot Diaz
Are we thinking here, or is this just so much pointing and clicking?
-Variously
attributed
As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.
-Donald
Trump
At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don't care
what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of
us at all.
-Ann Landers
Balance your thoughts with action. If you spend too much time thinking
about a thing, you'll never get it done.
-Bruce Lee
Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking,.
-Frank
Loesser
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
-Thomas
Szasz
Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the
thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.
-James Cash Penney
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
-Malcolm S.
Forbes
Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he
is thinking.
-Oswald Chambers
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag
about.
-Bill Maher
Fundamentalism is terrifying because it is based purely on emotion,
rather than intelligence. It prevents followers from thinking as
individuals and about the good of the world.
-Tenzin Gyatso (The
14th Dalai Lama)
I always have a quotation for everything- it saves original thinking.
-Dorothy
L. Sayers
I can't concentrate when I'm thinking.
-Yogi Berra
I suspect our human 'thinking processes' often 'break down,' but you
rarely notice anything's wrong, because your systems so quickly switch
you to think in different ways, while the systems that failed are
repaired or replaced.
-Marvin Minsky
I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state appointed
psychiatrist is our 'friend.'.
-Jack Handey
I was going to buy a copy of 'The Power of Positive Thinking,' and then
I thought: what the hell good would that do?
-Ronnie Shakes
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to
go to summer school.
-Peter De Vries
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box
when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
-Terry
Pratchett
I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.
-Gertrude
Berg
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-George
S. Patton, Jr.
If I had a dollar for every time I thought about you, I would start
thinking about you.
-Bill Murray
If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.
-Samuel Goldwyn
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot
think well, others will do their thinking for them.
-George Orwell
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is
doing the thinking.
-Lyndon B. Johnson
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you
really make them think, they'll hate you.
-Don Marquis
If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time
thinking that you don't do anything.
-John Malkovich
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
-Jonas
Salk
Keep on thinking. Keep your thinking close to the ground, where it
belongs. Don't ever trade your liberty for another man's offer to do
your thinking and make your mistakes for you.
-Poul Anderson
Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.
-Mike
Nichols
May God prevent us from becoming 'right-thinking men'- that is to say,
men who agree perfectly with their own police.
-Thomas Merton
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or
two he will feel as good as ever.
-Don Marquis
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
-Joseph Joubert
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather
than mistakes of logic.
-Edward de Bono
No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just
like you.
-Helen Fielding
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
-Voltaire
(François Marie Arouet)
One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that
people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without
thinking.
-Margaret Chase Smith
Originality consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking
unlike other people.
-J. Fitzjames Stephen
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It
spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking
responsibility for what they know.
-Brooks Atkinson
People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens
are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
-Norman
Cousins
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can
digest without eating!
-Iris Murdoch
Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of
himself.
-Benedict Spinoza
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is
thinking that makes what we read ours.
-John Locke
Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for
what it says than for what it makes you think.
-Louis L'Amour
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and
unhappiness.
-James Thurber
Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.
-Mortimer
J. Adler
The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about
by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of
logical thinking.
-Edward de Bono
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of
thinking.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
The country that draws a broad line between its fighting men and its
thinking men will find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done
by cowards.
-William F. Butler
The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific
thoughts, but that it generates a way of thinking.
-Stanley R.
Delaney
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
-Matthew
Arnold
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to
himself and to his fellow-men.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing
too much and you have no room for new ideas.
-Ray Bradbury
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't
have any.
-Alice Walker
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that
we are still not thinking.
-Martin Heidegger
The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has, from
people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject
party-mindedness.
-Christopher Hitchens
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to
raise people's hopes.
-Freeman Dyson
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply
rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo.
-Albert Schweitzer
The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
-Carson
McCullers
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority.
The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the
minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
-A.A.
Milne
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday
thinking.
-Albert Einstein
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
-Hannah
Arendt
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from
thinking.
-G.C. Lichtenberg
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
-William
Shakespeare
Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.
-Buckminster
Fuller
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
-Carl Jung
Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
-Sue
Grafton
Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything
self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do
things.
-Ray Bradbury
Thinking is what a great many people think they are doing when they are
merely rearranging their prejudices.
-William James
Thinking makes man great.
-Blaise Pascal
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to
theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
-William
Hazlitt
Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking.
-Grace
McGarvie
Unreason and anti-intellectualism abominate thought. Thinking implies
disagreement; and disagreement implies nonconformity; and nonconformity
implies heresy; and heresy implies disloyalty- so, obviously, thinking
must be stopped. But shouting is not a substitute for thinking and
reason is not the subversion but the salvation of freedom.
-Adlai
E. Stevenson II
We always plan too much and always think too little.
-Joseph A.
Schumpeter
We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot
change our thinking.
-Santosh Kalwar
We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future
generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding
of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society
we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are
based upon.
-Richard Dreyfuss
We're living longer, and thinking shorter.
-Esther Dyson
What the fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter
he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.
-Marie Corelli
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I
cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now
exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after
you and I shall write and speak no more.
-John Adams
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