George Bernard Shaw on Thinking
“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international
reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”
— George Bernard Shaw
Georgia O’Keeffe on Thinking
“I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes
and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t
occurred to me to put them down.”
-Georgia O'Keeffe
Niels Bohr on Thinking
“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution.
It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”
— Niels Bohr
Josiah Royce on Thinking
“Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.”
— Josiah Royce
Christopher Hitchens on Thinking
In honor of Christopher Hitchens' birthday (4/13), this week's thinking quote comes
from God is Not Great.
"We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry,
openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake."
-Christopher Hitchens
Alice Walker on Thinking
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
— Alice Walker
Jean-Paul Sartre on Thinking
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Henry Van Dyke on Thinking
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
John Locke on Thinking
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking
that makes what we read ours.
- John Locke
Bertrand Russell on Thinking
Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and
free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
-Bertrand Russell
William Lyon Phelps on Thinking
At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.
-William Lyon Phelps
Howard Mumford Jones on Thinking
"Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to."
-Howard Mumford Jones
Zora Neale Hurston on Thinking
“For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning
thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long
before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth.”
-Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
von Goethe on Thinking
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten but they may start a winning game."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Herbert Marcuse on Thinking
Thanks to Bruce Barnhart for submitting this quote:
"...thinking consists in knowing that the objective world is in reality, a subjective world, that it is the objectifcation of the subject."
-Herbert Marcuse
John Godfrey Saxe on Thinking
“At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink,
But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.”
-John Godfrey Saxe
Malcolm Gladwell on Thinking
"Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking."
-Malcolm Gladwell
Albert Szent-Györgyi on Thinking
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. "
-Albert Szent-Györgyi
David Foster Wallace on Thinking
"Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think."
-David Foster Wallace
A.A. Milne on Thinking
"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."
-A. A. Milne
Mark Twain on Thinking
"The man with a new idea is a crank - until the idea succeeds."
-Mark Twain
Luther Burbank on Thinking
Those who don't like thinking should at least rearrange their prejudices from time to time.
- Luther Burbank
Stanislaw Lec on Thinking
"Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody."
-Stanislaw Lec
Albert Camus on Thinking
“Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness,
making of every image a privileged place.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Voltaire on Thinking
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire
Robert Frost on Thinking and Voting
"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting."
-Robert Frost
Martha Nussbaum on Thinking
"Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of
bad behavior."
-Martha Nussbaum
Horace Walpole on Thinking
"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole
Hegel on Thinking
“Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is immediately before us.”
-Georg Hegel
Thanks to Bruce Barnhart for sending us this 'thought on thinking.'
Terry Pratchett on Thinking
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
-Terry Pratchett
Susan Sontag on Thinking
“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
Confucius on Thinking
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
-Confucius
Victor Hugo on Thinking
“Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth.”
― Victor Hugo
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