Think Quotes

"Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
-Albert Einstein

"When all think alike, no one thinks very much."
-Albert Einstein

"In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."
-Henry David Thoreau

"The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right."
-Henry David Thoreau

"In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world."
-Henry David Thoreau

"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
-Albert Einstein

"It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."
-Albert Einstein

"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. "
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We become what we think about all day long."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
-Mark Twain

"And did you think that such a guest Would in thy hall take up his rest? --High gifts ask diviner guess: Not to be conned to tediousness."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. "
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To think is to act."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
-Abraham Lincoln

"When I think of the number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a better world, I am sure hell won't be so bad at all."
-Mark Twain

"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
-Mark Twain

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
-Mark Twain

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
-Buddha

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
-Anne Frank

"Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."
-George Orwell