Thinking Quotes - page 2

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. (Adlai Stevenson II)
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function. View quote
Solomon Asch
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. View quote
Will Cuppy
Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. View quote
Helen Rowland
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. View quote
Havelock Ellis
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap. View quote
Anthony Hopkins
Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first. View quote
Mark Twain
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. View quote
Alvar Aalto
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. View quote
Henry Ford
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. (Christopher Morley)
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. View quote
Albert Einstein
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to findnothing. View quote
Aesop
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. View quote
William James
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. View quote
Thomas Paine
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. View quote
William Hazlitt
I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam. View quote
George Carlin
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. (Alfred North Whitehead)
I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof. View quote
Andrew Wiles
You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. View quote
Joshua Reynolds