thinking quotes

• Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. (Ambrose Bierce) [logic/art/thinking/human]
• He knew a path that wanted walking; He knew a spring that wanted drinking; A thought that wanted further thinking. (Robert Frost) [path/thinking]
• All thinking men are atheists. (Ernest Hemingway) [thinking/men]
• Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. (Henry Ford) [thinking]
• It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost. (Richard Bach) [thinking/life/willpower]
• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. (William James) [life/thinking]
• When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. (John Adams) [people/thinking/thing/thing]
• In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties. (Francis Bacon) [thinking/willpower]
• I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. (John Barrymore) [thinking/wife/wisdom]
• If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it. (Jean Baudrillard) [human/brain/thinking/language]
• Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: the Son, O how unlike the Father! First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it. (William Blake) [thinking/being/being/god]
• One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. (Paul Bourget) [thinking]
• Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are. (Claude M. Bristol) [creation/thinking/think]
• We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. (Albert Camus) [habit/habit/thinking/death]
• To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. (Albert Camus) [psychology/action/thinking/personality]
• Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. (Raymond Chandler) [oblivion/thinking//power]
• Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. (Winston Churchill) [thinking]
• Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. ( Confucius) [knowledge/thinking]
• Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. (Benedetto Croce) [thinking/action/mind]
• The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. (Albert Einstein) [power/atom/thinking]
• The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. (Albert Einstein) [face/thinking]
• We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. (Albert Einstein) [thinking/mankind]
• The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. (Albert Einstein) [science/more/thinking]
• Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. (Havelock Ellis) [thinking/paper/money/poetry]
• Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [courage/thinking/money/willpower]
• Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [life/thinking/day]
• A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [thinking]
• Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it. (Henry Ford) [thinking]
• The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play). (Michel Foucault) [willpower/thinking/willpower/role]
• Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting. (Robert Frost) [thinking]
• In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [politics/people/thinking/willpower]

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