Thinking Quotes

[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

It is impossible to solve significant problems using the same knowledge that created them.

The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself.

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

I do not know what I think until I write it.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

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.

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.

Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

The brain can be developed just the same as the musclescan be developed, if on will only take the pains to trainthe mind to think.

The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.

If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings. If you change your feelings, you can change your actions. And changing your actions - based on good thinking - can change your life.

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

I'm constantly thinking.

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.

Keep your thinking right and your business will be right.

Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.

I can no longer live by thinking.

The human condition: lost in thought.

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

How many situations can be resolved with less thinking?

I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking.

We can't solve today's problems with the mentality that created them.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

People must learn how to think well to achieve their dreams and to reach their potential.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder.

All thinking begins with wondering

How can a you hit and think at the same time?