Quotes about Thinking

"How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
-Albert Einstein

"I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking."
-Albert Einstein

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking."
-Albert Einstein

"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
-Albert Einstein

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
-Albert Einstein

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
-Albert Einstein

"The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement."
-Albert Einstein

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
-Albert Einstein

"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."
-Plato

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

"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."
-George Orwell

"To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence."
-Aristotle

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"Thinking evil is making evil."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
-Henry Ford

"The trouble with conservatives today is that most of their thinking is so naive. As for the liberals, their thinking is more sophisticated; but their function ought to be to provide new ideas, and they don't come up with any."
-John F. Kennedy

"Thinking is the essence of wisdom."
-Persian Proverb

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
-William Shakespeare

"Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so."
-William Shakespeare

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
-Lao tzu

"Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it."
-Lao tzu

"Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking."
-Horace Mann

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."
-Frederick Warren

"We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts."
-John Dewey

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."
-Alfred North Whitehead

"I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh