Thinking Quotes

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

Feelings should never supersede rational thought... so, if you feel that you've got the answer, you should think some more.

Julie Ann Elliott-Morton

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

Victor Hugo

Life is difficult.

M Scott Peck

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Oscar Wilde

Les idées sont le contraire de la pensée.

Albert Camus

I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think.

Jane Austen

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.

Abdul Kalam

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy, and th

Samuel Johnson

Le jugement du corps vaut bien celui de l'esprit et le corps recule devant l'anéantissement. Nous prenons l'habitude de vivre avant d'acquérir celle de penser.

Albert Camus

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development

Lewis Mumford

Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

Stephen King

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

Virginia Woolf

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself

Henry David Thoreau

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Abraham Lincoln

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

Albert Einstein

Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no else has thought

Albert Einstein

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

Albert Camus

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Albert Einstein

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

Stephen King