Thinking Quotes

What you think is an illusion created by your glands your emotions and in the last analysis by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.

Ayn Rand

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.

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.

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

The real offence as she ultimately perceived was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

Chinese Proverb

The thoughts that come often unsought and as it were drop into the mind are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity the intolerable labour of thought.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich Dilrrenmatt

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Walter Lippmann

Man is a slow sloppy and brilliant thinker the machine is fast accurate and stupid.

William M. Kelly

Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.

Facts in books statistics in encyclopedias the ability to use them in men's heads.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin H. Fisher

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.'

Thought is born of failure.

Lancelot Law Whyte

Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.

Spanish Proverb

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.

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.

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.

One thought fills immensity.

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.

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

When thought becomes excessively painful action is the finest remedy.

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.

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.

We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

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.

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.

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.

A high EQ mind maintains its composure whatever the situation, whether it is being glorified or vilified.

Pearl Zhu

People will laugh at anything, except their own moronic self.

Fakeer Ishavardas

Complexity Thinking is best thought of as a way of continually generating multiple perspectives on issues.

Pearl Zhu

Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts.

Pearl Zhu

Do not be discouraged by the disappointments you meet. Don't ever loose hope because, you missed opportunities. Disappointment and missing opportunities are all essential components of life. They give us the reasons to reason and they teach us the best lessons in life. They give a clear distinction between the wonder and the wander. When you meet disappointments, ponder! you may be on the great bath to that great appointment.Instead of being disappointed by disappointments, find the 'this appointment' disappointments show you. Instead of crying over missing and missed opportunities, let missing and missed opportunities miss you

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

when you make numerous mistakes, don't worry. You have numerous lessons of life in your bosom. The most important thing is recognizing, accepting and learning the lessons out of the lessons. just ponder!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

He who is shallow cannot think deeply.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Think innocently.Think intelligently.Think imaginatively.Think inventively.

Matshona Dhliwayo

What we think is more important in life, is just an excuse for not trying hard enough for what is right in front of us...

Donna M. Zadunajsky

Think honestly.Think humbly.Think honorably.Think happily.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You are what you think, not what others think of you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Think objectively.Think operationally.Think optimistically.Think outstandingly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Solitude – the space between thinking” from Cinderella In Focus.

Winners don’t think defeat. They think victory.

Benjamin Suulola

Forward-thinking means to focus on the future, even a few steps ahead, to build the long-term prosperity.

Pearl Zhu

When it comes to obeying your elders including parents, think once that they must be true for they have a whole lot of experience of life but think twice because they have the experience of ‘their’ life. Obey thoughtfully.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

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