Thinking Quotes

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
Anthony Hopkins

Trust, Death, Mind

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford

Work, Why, Reason

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack Obama

Change, Time, Government

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Live, Heart, True

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Billy Connolly

Someone, Tell, Listen

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Joseph Campbell

Ourselves, Quit, Truly

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
John Lennon

Love, Peace, Enough

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs

Best, Heart, Die

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
Robert Frost

Voting, Agreeing

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
Bob Dylan

Change, Future, Mind

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
George Orwell

Future, Past, Political

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, Alone, Lonely

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine

Long, Wrong, Appearance

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw

Made, Two, Once

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Steve Jobs

Important, Saying, Try

Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
Wayne Dyer

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James

Great, Prejudices, Merely

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Political, Wish, Less

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
Donald Trump

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
Steve Jobs

Night, Problem, Idea

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing, Looking, Less

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Voltaire

Thoughts, Knowing, Meditation

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Albert Camus

Death, Daily, Before

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thoughts, Put, Acting

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard

Happiness, Him, Lies

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Theodore Roosevelt

Successful, Often, Voice

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Plato

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Truth, Friends, Lies

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