Thinking Quotes And Sayings

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“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
– John Locke

“There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I’m not positive I am thinking.”
– John M. Eades

“She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions.”
– John Maxwell

“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.”
– Josiah Royce

“A good listener is usually thinking about something else.”
– Kin Hubbard

“Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“Stop thinking, and end your problems.”
– Lao Tzu

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
– Lao Tzu

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well-informed just to be undecided about them.”
– Laurence J. Peter

“He who thinks little errs much.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
– Lorraine Hansberry

“It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.”
– Luther Burbank

“The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.”
– M.T. Dismuke

“I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.”
– Maggie Stiefvater

“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Those who know how to think need no teachers.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think. ”
– Marianne Williamson

“My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!”
– Marquis de Sade

“Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself.”
– Martin H. Fischer

“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.”
– Mary Stewart

“The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don’t have any particular goal in sight.”
– Mike Tyson

“People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.”
– Muhammad Iqbal

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.”
– Nelson Mandela

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