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Quotes about Thinking


Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

Samuel Johnson

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Sir William Bragg

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.

Thomas Alva Edison

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death.

James F. Byrnes

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Theodore Rubin

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Barry Switzer

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

Bill Peterson

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street; While you are emptying your colloquial pack, The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

Idi Amin

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Paul Bourget

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Thomas Paine

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Thomas Paine

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Susan Taylor

No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of the present because thats where you are.

Kazi Shams

No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of the present because thats where you are and thats the place from where you can control the past and the future.

Kazi Shams

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Samuel Johnson

The new constitution established a president with powers unheard of in the republican United States. Some even wanted him to be king, a thought that GW found ludicrous: What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal & fallacious!

George Washington

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Joyce Carol Oates

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

Alexander Pope

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Tommy Lasorda

I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking of myself at all.

William S. Gilbert

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