Thinking Quotes

58012 Thinking quotes by 15869 unique authors

It's not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, it's the way I interpret and evaluate my… — Tony Robbins
Let your performance do the thinking. — Charlotte Bronte
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. — D. H. Lawrence
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking. — Jean-Paul Sartre
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity. — Henry Van Dyke
Nothing comes merely by thinking about it. — John Wanamaker
Our minds are lazier than our bodies. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. — Howard Mumford Jones
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. — Horace
Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness… — Roger Penrose
Sometimes I think and other times I am. — Paul Valery
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. — Joseph Addison
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés. — H. L. Mencken
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know. — Mary Stewart
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Clarence Day
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. — Charles Kettering
Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny. — Tryon Edwards
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell.… — Douglas Coupland
Writing and learning and thinking are the same process. — William Zinsser
You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then… — Tadao Ando
You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert. — Denis Waitley
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. — Henry David Thoreau
Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all. — Norman Cousins

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