Thinking Quotes
58012 Thinking quotes by 15869 unique authors
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything…
— Pablo Picasso
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation…
— Virginia Woolf
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior…
— Alexander Pope
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How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I…
— Clyde Tombaugh
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What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
— Jonas Salk
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The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again but…
— Jerry Garcia
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I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts…
— Ken Kesey
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There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine…
— Terence McKenna
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As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer…
— Edward de Bono
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Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand…
— Christina Rossetti
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In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of…
— Mao Zedong
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When my pals in high school were starting to drink, it always looked unappealing to me. I would be at a big party and see…
— Kathy Griffin
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play,…
— Lord Chesterfield
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That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his…
— Thomas Huxley
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...there has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can…
— Cesar Chavez
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I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers…
— Cesar Chavez
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The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer…
— Cesar Chavez
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...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more guts,…
— Cesar Chavez
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I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find…
— Cesar Chavez
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Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
— John Sterling
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