THINKING QUOTES III

quotations about thinking

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


There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

HANNAH ARENDT

The Life of the Mind

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If one learns from others but does not think, one is still at a loss. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one is in peril.

CONFUCIUS

The Analects

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The habit of thinking gives an inner life, which all that we see animates and embellishes; in this disposition of the soul everything becomes an object of thought; if the young botanist trembles with joy at the sight of a new plant, the moral botanist joys no less to see germinate around him truths with a much superior prize to that of an unknown flower.

BONSTELLEN

attributed, Day's Collacon


I figure if you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by.

DAVID BALDACCI

Split Second

Tags: David Baldacci


Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

LEWIS CARROLL

Alice Through the Looking Glass

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

OSCAR WILDE

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

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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


Life always gives you plenty to think about, but seldom enough to think with.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


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


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


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


We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Cosmography

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Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.

ECKHART TOLLE

The Power of Now

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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

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Thinking may be said to be the living principle of wisdom.

DEGERANDO

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

"Notes on Hamlet"

Tags: Samuel Taylor Coleridge


One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.

FERNANDO PESSOA

The Book of Disquiet

Tags: Fernando Pessoa