Thinking And Quotes About It

We as people are endowed with the great privilege, that of thinking, pondering upon ideas and bringing up some new ones. All the progress we see today is the product of thinking. Thinking is immaterial, is information that is afterwards transformed into matter resulting in all the various finite things we produced. However, at first it all happens in the brain, starts with meditation and thinking…

Let yourself inspired by the following proverbs and sayings about thoughts and thinking.
"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking." Voltaire

"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." John F. Kennedy

"The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it." H.G. Wells

"Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest." Author Unknown

"It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean." Luther Burbank

"Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself." Martin H. Fischer

"The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have." John Locke, 16 May 1699

"Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts." George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

"Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough." Confucius, Analects

"Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking." Steve Allen

"The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés." H.L. Mencken, Prejudices, 1925

"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week." George Bernard Shaw

"Belief is when someone else does the thinking." Buckminster Fuller, 1972

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." Will Durant

"At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat." William Lyon Phelps

"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. " Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

"Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information." John Erskine

"What luck for rulers, that men do not think." Adolph Hitler

"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. 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

"If someone calls to tell you something and on second thought they decide to say nothing, don’t push them to find their intention. The second thought is usually though more than the first." Claudia Miclaus

Don’t be afraid to check your ideas and convictions, it is better to double check than to go the wrong way. Therefore, think, wonder why you believe what you believe, carefully weigh and come to your conclusion. Sincerity does not make up for double checking…I sincerely believed I was going to Tilburg when I discovered taking the wrong train which went to Eindhoven. You can be very sincere but you also need to have the right information. That’s why, question your set of believes, check it because if you do that it will have 2 outcomes: you whether see that you’re wrong or you might reinforce your first idea, and you are on the right track. I love the way Alan Alda expressed this idea: "Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. "