Thinking Quotes

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

~ Harper Lee

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

~ Lauren Oliver

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

~ Dan Millman

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.”“Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges. Legally your researchers are free, but they are conditioned by the fashion of the day.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

~ George Eliot

All what is existing already existed. We are together for a while pondering in agile world.

~ Santosh Kalwar

I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate.

~ Frederick Douglass

We naturally think from our own perspective, from a point of view which tends to privilege our position. Fairness implies the treating of all relevant viewpoints alike without reference to one's own feelings or interests. Because we tend to be biased in favor of our own viewpoint, it is important to keep the standard of fairness at the forefront of our thinking. This is especially important when the situation may call on us to see things we don't want to see, or give something up that we want to hold onto.

~ Linda Elder

Each way of thinking has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon.

~ Haruki Murakami

Thinking is the toughest kind of work which is why so many people avoid it.

~ Orrin Woodward

There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.

~ Orrin Woodward

A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable, and, as it were, independent. He can only be saved by will or faith. The moment his mere reason moves, it moves in the old circular rut; he will go round and round his logical circle.

~ G.k. Chesterton

…the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.

~ Alan Jacobs

Over thinking ruins moods and kills good vibes.

~ Supanova Slom

Thinking more deeply into things usually left alone helps us to find bubbles of truth and clarity. When we realize we have power over our minds, we find strength, and that helps us float high along the forces of fate that order our motions within shapeless space.

~ Kayla Severson

A library is thought in cold storage.

~ Viscount Herbert Samuel

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.

~ Victor Hugo

An Englishman thinks seated a Frenchman standing an American pacing an Irishman afterward.

~ Austin O'malley

Analogies it is true decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home.

~ Sigmund Freud

Data data everywhere but not a thought to think.

~ Theodore Roszak

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

~ Paul Bourget

One thought fills immensity.

~ William Blake

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

~ Idi Amin

Thought is the labour of the intellect reverie is its pleasure.

~ Victor Hugo

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

~ A. E. Housman

When thought becomes excessively painful action is the finest remedy.

~ Salman Rushdie

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this perhaps even to learn to do it better.

~ Lewis Thomas

All thought is a feat of association having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

~ Robert Frost

We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

~ John Dewey

The extra calories needed for one hour of intense mental effort would be completely met by eating one oyster cracker or one half of a salted peanut.

~ Francis C. Benedict

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

~ Leslie Stephen

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

~ Albert Schweitzer

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

~ Samuel Johnson

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own but they probably are.

~ James Harvey Robinson

Thinking is like loving and dying - each of us must do it for himself.

~ Josiah Royce

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

~ John Galsworthy

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

~ Anatole France

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

~ Voltaire

And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

~ Bible