The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking.

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things?[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

The foolish man lies awake all night
Thinking of his many problems;
When the morning comes he is worn out
And his trouble is just as it was.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.

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

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up -- and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

High living and high thinking are poles apart.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice 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.

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

"People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things."

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

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

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one?s self.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.

A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking (meant) for others!

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become "unthinkable" thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

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

Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.

The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

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.

There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.

No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.

Thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break your world by thinking.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of 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.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

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.

The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.

My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black man?s struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. ?I?ve had enough of someone else?s propaganda,? I had written to these friends. ?I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and as such I?m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.? The American white man?s press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldn?t deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to the American black man?s problem. White man hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn?t demonstrating non-violence.

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.

I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Thinking evil is making evil.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.

We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.

I always have a quotation for everything-- it saves original thinking.

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.

Diversity the art of thinking independently together.

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.