Thinking Quotes
Most popular thinking quotes
Thoughts corrupt language, and language can also corrupt thought.
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
Thoughts are often one-sided and untrue. Learn to be mindful of thought instead of being lost in it.
"Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down."
Thoughts are like lenses through which we look at our world. We all have a tendency to cling to our particular lens and allow it to dictate how we interpret our experiences, even to the point of dictating who we think we are.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Thought is free.
A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
What you are thinking, is what you are becoming.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit—and man is his own gardener.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." In light of the Buddha's teaching, you might say, "I think, therefore I am . . . not here." You are lost in your thinking, so you are really not here. For you to truly be here, thinking has to stop. As you are practicing mindfulness of the breath, the object of your attention is simply the breath.
Not talking, by itself, already can bring a significant degree of peace. If we can also offer ourselves the deeper silence of not thinking, we can find, in that quiet, a wonderful lightness and freedom.
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Don't believe everything you think.
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.
Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
One must learn to think well before learning to think; afterward it proves too difficult.
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
There's times when I just have to quit thinking . . . and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping.
ECONOMY OF MIND Thinking gives a lot of pain. Talking doesn't cost a thing. Therefore, rest your weary brain and give your tongue a fling.
I concentrate on the concentric rings produced by my pen in the ink. The thing that distinguishes thoughts from things is that thoughts are harder to think.
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
The first man who noticed the analogy between a group of seven fishes and a group of seven days made a notable advance in the history of thought.
When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do.
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
A man able to think isn't defeated—even when he is defeated.
To have ideas is to gather flowers. To think is to weave them into garlands.
Delightful task! To rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.
Many other animals have feelings. What distinguishes our species is thought.
To think is to say no.
Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.
To think and to be fully alive are the same.
Thinking, existentially speaking, is a solitary but not a lonely business.
Thinking is seeing.
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion—these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.
All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material scepters.
In every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?
Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?
To think is to differ.
Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.
Thinking is the hardest work in the world; and most of us will go to great lengths to avoid it.
Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk.
What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking [that] makes what we read ours.
Thinking is the endeavor to capture reality by the means of ideas.
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Every man who has lived his life to the full, should, by the time his senior years are reached, have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.
People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.
A king can stand people's fighting, but he can last long if people start thinking.
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.
When the mind is thinking, is it simply talking to itself, asking questions and answering them, and saying yes or no.
There's nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: "Nobody can think and hit at the same time."
Ultimately, no one can ever be greater than the quality of his or her thinking.
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake.
The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
The revelation of Thought takes man out of servitude into Freedom.
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience.
Thought is the labor of the intellect.
Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.
What generally passes for "thought" among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
By thought I comprehend the world.
Travel and idle, contemplate the future or the past of the world, dream over books and loiter at street corners, and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Learning without thinking is time wasted; Thinking without learning is dangerous.
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
