Thinking Quotes

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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

The rest of the time, I don't do so much thinkin'. 'Cuz if I did, I'd go runnin' back to where thing...

The rest of the time, I don't do so much thinkin'. 'Cuz if I did, I'd go running back to where thing...

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we pa...

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thought...

As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone ...

Tabini was at least canny enough in the differences between atevi and human to know that, gut level,...

When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal intro...

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Can you look at a flower without thinking?

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

I wanted to be famous. It's embarrassing to admit, but I came out to L.A. thinking it would happen i...

there are things some people can never understand.there's no point to telling them.

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was app...

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the litt...

If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the wo...

But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I mu...

It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily...

Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form....

But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a ...

And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God...

The whole procedure of his thinking, Jason knew, was an imbecilic exercise; there was no compelling ...

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a ph...

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester Uni...

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than wi...

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

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read...

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you ...

I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like...

Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. ...

Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated ...

People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it

I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is ...

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and ...

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking abou...

I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they wer...

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic fo...

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap int...

People stop thinking when they cease to read.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it...

To think is to be sick...

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they...

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal con...

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had...

It faintly irritated him that Zaphod had to impose some ludicrous fantasy on to the scene to make it...

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop wr...

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one ...

Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destruc...

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into ...

Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the ...

Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing th...

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have b...

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said '...

Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...

Most people avoid thinking if they can, some of us are addicted to thinking, but Von Neumann actuall...

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled th...

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change yo...

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole differen...

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film e...

Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If yo...

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

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions...

Groceries, you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes y...

A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and ...

I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we con...

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're enc...

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you...

If you can't tell someone how to think, then you have to learn to manage the environment where they ...

The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in t...

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. I...

But in the Gulf you got time. And I'm figuring all the time. I've got to think right all the time. I...

I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and ...

To feel everything in every way; to be able to think with the emotions and feel with the mind; not t...

Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the ...

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any ...

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...

Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

But one thing is the thought, another thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed. ...

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessa...

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecess...

The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your crit...