Here are some proverbs and quotes about thinking.
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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?(unknown author)
Can submarines swim?
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 peopleRichard 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.Pink Floyd
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.
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 whiteLouis Armstrong
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Source: Lyrics: What a Wonderful World
I see trees of green, red roses tooLouis Armstrong
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
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!Roald Dahl
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!
Source: Poem: Television
It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.Lewis Grizzard
Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!George Carlin
Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame.Konrad Lorenz
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