thinking quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."
375
"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
940
"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him."
946
"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."
86
"In our culture we tend to equate thinking and intellectual powers with success and achievement. In many ways, however, it is an emotional quality that separates those who master a field from the many who simply work at a job."
123
"Anything that is alive is in a continual state of change and movement. The moment that you rest, thinking that you have attained the level you desire, a part of your mind enters a phase of decay."
128
"Our evolution as a species has depended on the creation of a tremendous diversity of skills and ways of thinking. We thrive by the collective activity of people supplying their individual talents. Without such diversity, a culture dies."
132
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done."
241
"I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted."
294
"Stop thinking, and end your problems."
514
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
519
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them"
614
"All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking."
615
"Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution."
663
"I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better."
674
"The more you read without thinking, the more you think you know a lot but the more you meditate, the more you see that you know very little."
712
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
1056