Thinking Quotes

58012 Thinking quotes by 15869 unique authors

The trouble is that you think you have time. — Jack Kornfield
Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again… — Marcus Aurelius
My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.' — George Carlin
I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of… — Stephen King
Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men. — Harry J. Anslinger
The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis. — Willie Nelson
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear… — Bertrand Russell
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking… — Mahatma Gandhi
The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and… — Charles Eliot Norton
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. — Hendrik Willem van Loon
So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind… — Laurence Sterne
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt. — H. L. Mencken
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with… — Thomas Jefferson
To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong... — H. L. Mencken
Few minds wear out; more rust out. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. — Benjamin Lee Whorf
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a… — Roger Penrose
At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat. — William Lyon Phelps
I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions. — Tony Robbins
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that… — D. H. Lawrence
I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do. — Victoria Principal
I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past. — John Cale
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. — Peter De Vries
I'm against fashionable thinking. — Herman Kahn

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