Quotes About Thinking

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.

The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future

I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.

I totally think we have a future on the planet. I just think that we have to get away from Western thinking, which is very much founded on dualisms.

We're not even thinking about (the postseason) right now. We've been in a slump, so we're taking things day by day. We aren't looking to the future because we haven't addressed the present.

If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

So many things to think about, so many words to say. So many deeds to be done, so many habits to create. So much character to show, so much love to give. In all of this there is transformation and in all of this I live.

The French have a penchant for absolutism, for thinking that things are all one way or all another, which is why their politics are marked by a general inability to compromise and why they tend to hold their personal opinions until the bitter end, even after they have clearly lost an argument.

Immer müssen die Denkenden darauf verzichten zu leben, und die Lebenden haben es nicht nötig zu denken. Die erlösende Tat wird nie getan werden, denn der die Kraft hätte, sie zu tun, weiß nicht, dass er sie tun muss, und der Wissende ist unfähig zu handeln.

Los que piensan siempre tienen que renunciar a vivir, y los que viven no necesitan pensar.

Anger is a result of life alienated thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyse and judge somebody rather than focus on which of our needs is not being met.

Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyze and judge somebody rather than focus on what we are needing and not getting.

We must know God before we can love God. In order to know God, we must think of Him often. When we grow to love Him, then we shall think of Him often. Our heart will be where our treasure is.