Thinking Quotes

Most of the people will try to prove your right ideas as wrong, so share your ideas carefully or not at all.

~ Amit Kalantri

I over analyze situations because Im scared of what may happen if I'm not prepared for it.

~ Turcois Ominek

Go. Think. Turn black into white.Night into day. I am tired of thinking.I know where it will lead me and I don’tWant to be there.Go love. Do your thinking.

~ Walter Dean Myers

When they are all thinking alike, they aren't thinking at all.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Wasn't it what her father always warned her about? Don't jump off a bridge because a cute guy tells you to?

~ Joannah Miley

Let me thinkThinking is all I haveIf wisdom is a pretenseThen let me pretend to be wise

~ Walter Dean Myers

Most Girls think that the every boy they don't like is not good but they didn't see the inner soul of them.

~ Udayveer Singh

To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Two percent of the people think, three percent of the people think they think, and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason.

~ James Hervey Johnson

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

~ Joseph Joubert

If God's love encompasses the whole world and if everyone who does not believe in him will perish, then surely this question needs to be asked: When, after two thousand years, does God's plan kick in for the billion people he 'so loves' in China? Or for the 840 million in India? Or the millions in Japan, Afghanistan, Siberia, Egypt, Burma ·.. and on and on?Why would a God who 'so loved the world' reveal his message only to a tiny minority of the people on earth, leaving the majority in ignorance? Is it possible to believe that the Father of all Mankind would select as his Chosen People a small Middle Eastern nation, Israel, reveal His will exclusively to them, fight alongside them in their battles to survive, and only after their failure to reach out to any other group, update His plan for the world's salvation by sending His 'only begotten son,' not to the world but, once again, exclusively to Israel?

~ Charles Templeton

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.

~ Steve Wozniak

Your opinion of your mental capacity may be great, but if your idea of intelligence is crude, your intelligence-producing thought will also be crude, and can produce only crude intelligence. It is therefore evident that to simply think that you are brilliant will not produce brilliancy, unless your understanding of brilliancy is made larger, higher and finer. …. When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.

~ Christian D. Larson

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Perhaps you still think you ought to think out beforehand and know what you ought to do. To that there is only one answer. You can only know and think about it by actually doing it. You can only learn what obedience is by obeying. It is no use asking questions, for it is only through obedience that you come to learn the truth.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.

~ Kedar Joshi

The rest of the time, I don't do so much thinkin'. 'Cuz if I did, I'd go running back to where things is simple. You see?

~ Brandon Sanderson

What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.

~ Steven Erikson

A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.

~ Anne Carson

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

~ Plato

Life can be frustrating sometimes. Take a nap, exercise, meditate or do whatever it takes to 'reboot' your thinking. Happiness is just a thought away!

~ Tom Giaquinto

Sunshine is helpful for thinking. It warms up the brain cells.

~ Shannon Wiersbitzky

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?

~ Jerry Spinelli

There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I'm afraid. Critical thinking has become a sadly rare skill these days.

~ Rachel Caine

But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.

~ Robert Graves

A tapping foot isn’t the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I just like the idea of looking back at my life and feeling like I made different choices than everyone else, you know? Most people are inherently boring if you really dig deep. They don't want much, they don't veer from their chosen path, and they're generally scared of change. I don't know, at least that's how my grandfather tells it. I don't want to be like fifty and realize that I was one of those people who didn't bother to think outside the box.

~ Margaux Froley

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that literary criticism must focus on paper and bookbinding, ink and its chemistry, page sizes and margin widths, typefaces and paragraph lengths, and so forth.

~ Douglas R. Hofstadter

No, no - I think about thinking

~ Douglas R. Hofstadter

People don't think when they're enjoying themselves. Thinking is a sign of disturbance.

~ Marty Rubin

But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Now I know without a shadow of doubt that you can't chase away those images, let alone the visible holes that burrow deep down inside. You can't chase away the reverberations or the memories that stir as night falls or in the early hours. You can't chase away echoing screams, still less echoing silence

~ Delphine De Vigan

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

~ Gretel Ehrlich

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

~ Alfred Bester

Thinking outside the box' is ridiculous nonsense, since whatever you can do in a 'box' or closed environment is not 'thinking'. If I 'think' about a problem but limit my thoughts to certain dimensions - then i am not thinking at all, because thinking implies that one at least tries to take all relevant factors into consideration, and as there's usually no way to tell which factors are and which are not relevant restricted thought is not 'thinking' and so 'thinking outside the box' is simply a eufemism for 'let's start to think', but the metafor implies a hidden desire to return to conformity immediately.

~ Martijn Benders

The one and only true freedom we ALL possess is what we think, and our intentions govern what we think.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.

~ Edgar Allan Poe