Thinking - Quotes and Proverbs

Here are some proverbs and quotes about thinking.

Thinking monkey — Penny for your thoughts.

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A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

Robert G. Ingersoll

All thinking men are atheists.

Ernest Hemingway

An atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can't be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf question.

John McCarthy

An optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears that this is so.

(unknown author)

Any curriculum will be pedagogically ineffective if it consists of a lecturer yammering in front of a blackboard, or a textbook that students highlight with a yellow marker. People understand concepts only when they are forced to think them through, to discuss them with others, and to use them to solve problems.

Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

Aristotle 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.

Will Cuppy

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Richard Dawkins

Can computers think?
Can submarines swim?

(unknown author)

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Margaret Mead

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Did you ever stop to think and forget to start again?

Winnie the Pooh

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Malcolm Forbes

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Richard Dawkins

Dogs have fleas in order to keep them from thinking about being dogs.

Don't think that chocolate is a substitute for love! Love is a substitute for chocolate.

Miranda Ingram

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

Mick Jagger

Every doctor thinks his pills are the best.

Every man thinks his own geese swans.

Charles Dickens

Everyone thinks he has more than his share of brain.

Evolution is now universally accepted as a fact by thinking people

Richard Dawkins

For years and years and years, I thought my brain was the most important organ of my body, until one day I thought, hmm. Look who’s telling me that!

George Carlin

Great minds think alike.

You say this when you have the same opinion as another person.

He who loves a one-eyed girl thinks that one-eyed girls are beautiful.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Have His Carcase
Quoted: Lord Peter Wimsey

I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop, I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I didn't think there was anything in the universe more important than homework.

J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Quoted: Ron

I don't need no walls around me.
And I don't need no drugs to calm me.
I have seen the writing on the wall.
Don't think I need any thing at all.

Pink Floyd
Source: Lyrics: Another Brick in the Wall

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

P.J. O'Rourke

I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

Albert Einstein

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Vincent van Gogh

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world

Louis Armstrong
Source: Lyrics: What a Wonderful World

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

Louis Armstrong
Source: Lyrics: What a Wonderful World

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

Drew Barrymore

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

Henry Moore

I think to myself, what a wonderful world.

Louis Armstrong
Source: Lyrics: What a Wonderful World

I think, therefore I am.

René Descartes
Latin: Cogito, ergo sum

If I couldn't talk to myself, I'd have no way of knowing what I was thinking.

Daniel Dennett

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

Richard Dawkins

If you are a fast talker at least think slowly.

If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

Sylvia Earle

In a flat country a hillock thinks itself a mountain.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

Isaac Asimov

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

René Descartes

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

Jane Austen
Source: Sense and Sensibility

It rots the sense in the head!
It kills imagination dead!
It clogs and clutters up the mind!
It makes a child so dull and blind
he can no longer understand
a fantasy, a fairyland!
His brain becomes as soft as cheese!
His powers of thinking rust and freeze!
He cannot think--he only sees!

Roald Dahl
Source: Poem: Television