THINKING QUOTES IV

quotations about thinking

As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.

BIBLE

Proverbs 23:7

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Thinking makes the great distinction between the mind of the philosopher and that of the fool.

REV. E. THOMPSON

attributed, Day's Collacon


If one learns from others but does not think, one is still at a loss. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one is in peril.

CONFUCIUS

The Analects

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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 sceptres.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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Forty years ago, you didn't need advanced critical thinking skills to earn a good living on an assembly line. But in today's knowledge-based economy, critical thinking skills are at a premium: according to a survey of chief human resources and strategy officers by the World Economic Forum, by 2020, complex problem solving and critical thinking will be the top two skills workers need.

TERRI WILLIAMS

"Study: Nearly Half of Millennials Get an 'F' In Critical Thinking", GoodCall, May 30, 2017


If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

HARLAN ELLISON

Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed


The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

HORACE WALPOLE

The Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford

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Thinking nurseth thinking.

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney

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Thinking may be said to be the living principle of wisdom.

DEGERANDO

attributed, Day's Collacon


If negative thinking is the source of stress and limitation, reframing those thoughts into positive ones will naturally begin to shift you out of stress and toward an awareness of the opportunities all around you that are just waiting for you to recognize them.

ALLISON MASLAN

"Flip the Switch on Fear-Based Thinking", Entrepreneur, May 19, 2017


I don't believe in thought. Too much thinking.

PHILIP MOELLER

The Roadhouse in Arden

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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.

Strength to Love

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Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects of Humanity

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At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink,
But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

JOHN GODFREY SAXE

The Library


If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Aids to Reflection

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There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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If I could think how these my thoughts to leave,
Or thinking still, my thoughts might have good end:
If rebel sense would reason's law receive;
Or reason foil'd would not in vain contend:
Then might I think what thoughts were best to think:
Then might I wisely swim, or gladly sink.

PHILIP SIDNEY

sonnet


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

JOHN LOCKE

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament.

CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

"On War"


We have a default tendency to make fast thinking snap judgments that oversimplify analyses of complex situations. Shortcuts or "heuristics" allow for quick decisions, but we tend to overuse them.

STUART R. LEVINE

"Improve decisions through slower thinking", CU Insight, May 31, 2017