quotations about thinking
The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
LEWIS CARROLL
Alice Through the Looking Glass
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
OSCAR WILDE
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
I figure if you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by.
DAVID BALDACCI
Split Second
I view everything in life as white or black. I don't see color when it comes to life, lessons, situations, or the world. I think either it's meant to be or not, it's going to happen or it won't, either it's fate or it's not. There is no in between in my thoughts. This is the exact way I look at my life and trying to be perfect within it. It's not easy to explain, but when I fail at something I must sulk on it for days or weeks because it throws off my way of thinking.
CHERI VOIGT
"WRITE TEAM: Black-and-white thinking", My Web Times, May 18, 2017
Many a man who thinks he is thinking, is merely digesting yesterday's newspaper.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Better to think wrongly with your own head, than to think rightly with the head of another.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Individuality in opinion, or, what is more, in thinking, is simply one with thinking at all; for he who thinks thereby looks at the thing or the fact itself and takes its measure by observation directly, not content with the measures of others.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
Essays
We never think entirely alone; we think in company, in a vast collaboration; we work with the workers of the past and of the present.
ANTONIN SERTILLANGES
The Intellectual Life
Not out of right practice comes right thinking, but out of right thinking comes right practice. It matters enormously what you think. If you think falsely, you will act mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your thinking.
ANNIE BESANT
Daily Meditations on the Path and Its Qualifications
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the thinking few!
How many never think, who think they do.
JANE TAYLOR
Essays in Rhyme
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Cosmography
In martial arts, as in life, you quickly learn not to think too much. You have to do. While you're thinking, you open spaces where an opponent can successfully strike at you. The more you think, the more vulnerable you become.
JOSEPH CARDILLO
Be Like Water
One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.
FERNANDO PESSOA
The Book of Disquiet
As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
BIBLE
Proverbs 23:7
If I could think how these my thoughts to leave,
Or thinking still, my thoughts might have good end:
If rebel sense would reason's law receive;
Or reason foil'd would not in vain contend:
Then might I think what thoughts were best to think:
Then might I wisely swim, or gladly sink.
PHILIP SIDNEY
sonnet
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
HORACE WALPOLE
The Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
Man has been born for two things--thinking and acting; to think is to live.
CICERO
attributed, Day's Collacon
All practical men try to bring the world under their hands; all thinkers, under their heads.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe