Think/ing Quotes

Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your legacy.

You are not thinking, you are merely being logical.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

When we stimulate our minds, we stimulate our souls.

When people think differently, they automatically act differently.

We are least aware of what out minds do best.

Thoughts are mostly echoes of your past perceptions.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

There is no singularly real world of thought; each mind evolves its own internal universe.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.

The mind is like a parachute. It only functions when it’s open.

The mind is the measure of the man.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

The essence of intellect is the ability to make distinctions.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

The brain is as strong as its weakest think.

Some of the most crucial steps in mental growth are based not simply on acquiring new skills, but on acquiring new administrative ways to use what one already knows.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Obviously, a man’s judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Never speak more clearly than you think.

MIND: A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

It’s OK to think about what you want to do Until such time as you figure out what it is you were meant to do.

It is easier to behave your way into a new way of thinking than it is to think your way into a new way of behaving.

It has been the persuasion of an immense majority of human beings that sensibility and thought (as distinguished from matter) are, in their own nature, less susceptible of division and decay, and that, when the body is resolved into its elements, the principle which animated it will remain perpetual and unchanged. However, it is probable that what we call thought is not an actual being, but no more than the relation between certain parts of that infinitely varied mass, of which the rest of the universe is composed, and which ceases to exist as soon as those parts change their position with respect to each other.

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; But if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.

If everyone thought the same way, no one would be thinking.

I’d rather know some of the questions than all of the answers.