quotations about thinking
Man has been born for two things--thinking and acting; to think is to live.
CICERO
attributed, Day's Collacon
Thinking makes the great distinction between the mind of the philosopher and that of the fool.
REV. E. THOMPSON
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Our thinking is always based in the past or in the future, never in the present. Horses are always in the present, just enjoying the lifeforce and the nature around them, aware of sounds and feelings.
KATHERINE BEAUMONT
"Meditation with a horse proves to be a rewarding experience", The Visitor, June 1, 2017
Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
LEWIS CARROLL
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Try thinking more if just for your own sake
THE BEATLES
"Think for Yourself", Rubber Soul
Thinking nurseth thinking.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney
At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink,
But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.
JOHN GODFREY SAXE
The Library
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
Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects of Humanity
Thinking may be said to be the living principle of wisdom.
DEGERANDO
attributed, Day's Collacon
I don't believe in thought. Too much thinking.
PHILIP MOELLER
The Roadhouse in Arden
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
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"
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
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
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
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
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Aids to Reflection
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