THINKING QUOTES II
quotations about thinking
Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The ABC of Relativity
We never think entirely alone; we think in company, in a vast collaboration; we work with the workers of the past and of the present.
ANTONIN SERTILLANGES
The Intellectual Life
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
The Sirens of Titan
Those who think must govern those that toil.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Traveller
Ours is an age which is proud of machines that think, and suspicious of the men who try to.
HOWARD MUMFORD JONES
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the thinking few!
How many never think, who think they do.
JANE TAYLOR
Essays in Rhyme
Half the trouble in the world arises because you can't stop people from thinking, and the other half because you can't start them.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Better to think wrongly with your own head, than to think rightly with the head of another.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
THOMAS L. MASSON
Laughs
The habit of thinking gives an inner life, which all that we see animates and embellishes; in this disposition of the soul everything becomes an object of thought; if the young botanist trembles with joy at the sight of a new plant, the moral botanist joys no less to see germinate around him truths with a much superior prize to that of an unknown flower.
BONSTELLEN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Many a man who thinks he is thinking, is merely digesting yesterday's newspaper.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
In martial arts, as in life, you quickly learn not to think too much. You have to do. While you're thinking, you open spaces where an opponent can successfully strike at you. The more you think, the more vulnerable you become.
JOSEPH CARDILLO
Be Like Water
The old illustration of the glass being half-full or half-empty is a timeless truth. We have the choice to think negative thoughts or positive thoughts. Whichever we choose will have a direct influence on what we do and say.
BILLY HOLLAND
"Optimistic thinking is a learned behavior", Winchester Sun, May 12, 2017
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
OSCAR WILDE
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking.
FRANK LOESSER
"Standing on the Corner", The Most Happy Fella
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.
SIGMUND FREUD
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
A thinking that approaches its objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules prescribed to it by organized knowledge. It ... rends the veil with which society conceals them, and perceives them anew.
THEODOR W. ADORNO
Why Still Philosophy?
I view everything in life as white or black. I don't see color when it comes to life, lessons, situations, or the world. I think either it's meant to be or not, it's going to happen or it won't, either it's fate or it's not. There is no in between in my thoughts. This is the exact way I look at my life and trying to be perfect within it. It's not easy to explain, but when I fail at something I must sulk on it for days or weeks because it throws off my way of thinking.
CHERI VOIGT
"WRITE TEAM: Black-and-white thinking", My Web Times, May 18, 2017