Thinking Quotes And Sayings

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“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”
– Niels Bohr

“The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true.”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The ‘how’ thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ‘ifs’.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.”
– Phaedrus

“Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”
– Plato

“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.”
– Plato

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
– Plutarch

“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”
– Ray Bradbury

“I think, therefore I am.”
– René Descartes

“Thinking doesn’t pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.”
– Robert A. Heinlein

“Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.”
– Robert Baden-Powell

“Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.”
– Robert Frost

“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
– Santosh Kalwar

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”
– Scott Westerfeld

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.”
– Stephen Hawking

“The thought process can never be complete without articulation.”
– Stephen King

“Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.”
– Steve Jobs

“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
– Susan Sontag

“No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.”
– Terry Josephson

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
– Terry Pratchett

“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
– Thomas A. Edison

“There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.”
– Thomas A. Edison

“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
– Thomas A. Edison

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
– Thomas Paine

“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”
– Thomas Paine

“There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.”
– Thomas Paine

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