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Quotes About Thinking

We only think when we are confronted with problems.
~ John Dewey
The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
~ Barbara Tuchman
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
~ Richard Dawkins
Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
~ Agnes Repplier
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about...Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings, who don't have all the answers, to think that they do.
~ Bill Maher
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about.
~ Bill Maher
God's Word is the tool the Holy Spirit uses to change our worldly thinking to heavenly thinking.
~ Elizabeth George
Dare to contradict the scientist, not because of your scripture, but because of your own rational thinking.
~ Abhijit Naskar
I thought thinking was suppose to help you work through the confusion,Honestly I'm more confused then before I started thinking.
~ Unknown
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Your outlook on life depends on how you perceive it and those around you.
~ Unknown
The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
~ Unknown
A positive attitude helps you cope more easily with the daily affairs of life. It brings optimism into your life, and makes it easier to avoid worries and negative thinking. If you adopt it as a way of life, it would bring constructive changes into your life, and makes you happier, brighter and more successful. With a positive attitude you see the bright side of life, become optimistic, and expect the best to happen. It is certainly a state of mind that is well worth developing.
~ Unknown
The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it.
~ Thiruman Archunan
The mind is a great philosopher. And life is not a philosophy, life is a reality. And philosophy is an escape from reality; philosophy means thinking. Life is, there is no question of thought. You can simply jump into it. You can simply experience it.
~ Unknown
Life doesn't change in one minute, but taking decision after thinking for one minute can change life.
~ Unknown
The quality of our thinking and positive attitude determines the quality of our life.
~ Unknown
Strength comes from struggle, when you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from I can't do this to I MUST DO THIS.
~ Unknown
the mainstream thrust of anti-intellectualism, as it stands today, characterizes thinking itself as an elitist activity.
~ Maggie Nelson
For the mainstream thrust of anti-intellectualism, as it stands today, characterizes thinking itself as an elitist activity.
~ Maggie Nelson
As we think, we might remember that it matters not only with whom and what we choose to think; it also matters what spirit we choose to think with.
~ Maggie Nelson
Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
~ Malcolm Gladwell