Thinking Quotes - page 3

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. (Edward Gibbon)
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof. View quote
Andrew Wiles
You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. View quote
David Ogilvy
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. View quote
Jonas Salk
I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking. View quote
A. A. Milne
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. (Elizabeth Gaskell)
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence. View quote
Octavia Butler
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. View quote
Edith Sitwell
A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. View quote
Adrienne Rich
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. View quote
Mary Martin
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. View quote
Samuel Richardson
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. View quote
Christopher Isherwood
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all. View quote
Bob Dole
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. (Alfred Korzybski)
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. View quote
George Orwell
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat. View quote
Anthony Stewart Head
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. View quote
Alan Watts
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