Quotes About Thinking

On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.

Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.

The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

This is the man who called the fire department when the toilet backed up, and I'm asking him for help. What was I thinking? Why am I attracted to weak men?

A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes to corner myself. I like a man about, if he's only something to snap at.

man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.

Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

Doom is thinking-man's heavy, something you climb into and not only discover the riffs and depth of the music, but also you also climb into yourself and explore the inner environment.

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.

What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?

All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.