Thinking

Here are some proverbs and quotes about thinking.

Thinking monkey
Penny for your thoughts.


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Language was given to men so that they could conceal their thoughts.
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
Jean Cocteau

Most people would sooner die than start to think. In fact - they do so.
Bertrand Russell

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.
Mignon McLaughlin

Non-intellectual people overestimate the power of reason among intellectuals.
Jill Paton Walsh
Source: The Late Scholar: Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Investigate

People don't think and thus get fooled by priests and Trumpalikes.
Minkukel

Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals.
Amy Morin

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Hypatia

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan

She thinks she's the bee's knees.
She has a very high opinion of herself.

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David Ogilvy

The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.
Robert C. Dodds

The past is never where you think you left it.
Katherine Anne Porter

The power of thought, the magic of the mind.
Lord Byron

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Sydney J. Harris

The thinkers of the Enlightenment sought a new understanding of the human condition. The era was a cornucopia of ideas, some of them contradictory, but four themes tie them together: reason, science, humanism, and progress.
Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Think first. Talk less. Start today.
Charles Swindoll

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen
Source: Pride and Prejudice

Thought is the blossom, language the bud, action the fruit behind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Till the next time we say goodbye
I'll be thinking of you
The Rolling Stones
Source: Lyrics: Till the Next Goodbye

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

We need to challenge our own thinking.
Elliot Aronson

We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.
Jason Fried

We think too much and feel too little.
Charlie Chaplin

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Vince Lombardi

What a man says drunk, he thinks sober.
People speak more freely under the influence of alcohol.

When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.
(unknown author)

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
Audrey Hepburn

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
Steven Wright

Who does not think that his fleas are gazelles?

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne Frank

Women spend more time wondering what men are thinking than men spend thinking.
(unknown author)

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.
Ric Keller

You cannot not think of something.
(unknown author)

You can’t do much carpentry with your bare hands, and you can’t do much thinking with your bare brain.
Bo Dahlbom

You never are so easily mistaken as when you think you know the way.

Your life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be enjoyed. You are doing better than you think.
Alan Cohen

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Quoted: Dumbledore


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