Thinking Quotes

Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.

~ Raheel Farooq

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.

~ #Name?

Whether something is wonderful or horrible, the most harmful thought we can think is “Will this last forever?

~ Vironika Tugaleva

To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

when you are doubt with someone on how they feel don't pretend that you know what they were thinking, never assume yourself as you know how they feel when you really not at their shoes at all.

~ Jinnul Jr.

Your Results will only change when you change your mindset, thinking and actions.

~ Tony Dovale

The age measured from the date of birth is just a number, The mental age always makes the difference

~ Ramy El-Mahdy

He often came back ‘all thinky’ from work.

~ Sara Sheridan

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

~ John Brockman

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

~ Tim Fargo

That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: I think, therefore I am. I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

He pushed his two feet together and shot his right arm in the air before clicking his two heels together and saying in a deep and clear voice as possible the words he said every time he left a soldiers presence. 'Heil Hitler,' he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, 'Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon'.

~ John Boyne

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it, or you're up to something.

~ Saleem Sharma

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture

~ Alasdair Macintyre

I tried to think outside the box but couldn't open the lid.

~ Alan Dapre

Sustained negative flashbacks can stir a heart attack.

~ T.f. Hodge

…Oh dear, I sometimes think…whatever would I do if anything happened…But thinking's no good, is it, madam? Thinking won't help. When I find myself doing that, I say to myself, come along, Ellen! Stop it this moment, my girl! Stop that silly thinking…!

~ Katherine Mansfield

I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the assistance of my senses. That there are immaterial and intelligent substances I do not at all doubt; but that it is impossible for God to communicate the faculty of thinking to matter, I doubt very much. I revere the Eternal Power, to which it would ill become me to prescribe bounds. I affirm nothing, and am contented to believe that many things are possible than are usually thought so.

~ Voltaire

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

~ Elvin C. Stakman

To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole.

~ Fritz Zwicky

I think sometimes I think too damn much. I worry about this and that and everything else and then I wake up and four more years have slipped right out the back door.

~ Kris Radish

Our lives can hold just so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.

~ Maud Hart Lovelace

If you think everybody hates you, then your ignorance is beyond the limit, because there's a loving heart somewhere longing to see your face.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Busyness chokes deep thinking.

~ Todd Stocker

The pondering heart is a thankful heart.

~ Todd Stocker

Gil has put his book down and is gazing at something inside his head.

~ Meg Rosoff

If everyone could learn how to read books properly and how to use them as effective tools for daily living, the facilities of colleges could easily go out of existence without any loss to society.' -From a speech by the president of Mount Holyoke College, as reported in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, May 13, 1938

~ Francis Beauchesne Thornton

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Or was Chris thinking, as I was, that if we went tothe police and told our story, our faces would be splashed on the frontpages of every newspaper in the country? Would the glare of publicitymake up for what we'd lose? Our privacy-our need to stay together?Could we lose each other just to get even?

~ V.c. Andrews

Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible.

~ Sam Harris

It faintly irritated him that Zaphod had to impose some ludicrous fantasy on to the scene to make it work for him. All this Margrathea nonsense seemed juvenile. Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

~ Douglas Adams

My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions.

~ Zadie Smith

Someday I'll understand more of these things. At the moment I just have to think them through. Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google.

~ Meg Rosoff

Look, I say. You can't just let your thoughts float around in the ether and hope eventually they'll connect with something. It's absurd.No, it's not, Gil says. Lots of good things happen that way. Penicillin. Teflon. Smart dust. Something happens that you weren't expecting and it shifts the outcome completely. You have to be open to it. When I open my brain, I tell him, things bounce around and fall out. They don't connect with anything. Maybe I haven't got enough points of reference stored up yet.You're young, he says, that's probably it. When I let my thoughts float around, I trust that they'll latch on to something useful in the end or make an association I wouldn't necessarily have predicted. I'm trusting that they'll find the right thought to complete, all by themselves. The right bit of fact to ping. You have to trust your brain sometimes.

~ Meg Rosoff

You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and actupon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking andsubsequent actions.

~ Adlin Sinclair

I like to think of innovation as upgrading your current self. This upgrade helps you to more effectively deal with changes happening around you and to be able to think in a more complex manner than before.

~ Daniel Willey

Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Isn't it amazing that we’ll cause ourselves more pain by thinking about, and avoiding something we’re afraid of, or something we know we must deal with, but don't want to face? The best thing you can do is just do it, just face the fear and get it over with. How do you get the courage? You create your courage by just taking action…

~ James A. Murphy

Don't be an escort to people on their way to success, for it is equally as if you're a sign post, leading the way, and rusting at the end.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Traditional ways to deal with information--reading, listening, writing, talking--are painfully slow in comparison to viewing the big picture. Those who survive information overload will be those who search for information with broadband thinking but apply it with a single-minded focus.

~ Kathryn Alesandrini