Thinking Quotes

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Thomas A. Edison

Labor, Avoid, Expedient

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.
Thomas Sowell

Hope, Control, Whatever

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
Hillary Clinton

Best, Society, Start

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.
Richard Bach

Life, Happy, Yourself

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas A. Edison

Best, Done, Solitude

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Time, Action, Stop

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Robert Baden-Powell

Motto, Himself, Act

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
William James

Life, Altering, Alter

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
Nina Simone

Good, Hurt, Angry

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
Clifton Fadiman

Insomnia, Gross, Nourish

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.
Bill Gates

Life, Understand, Year

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
Bill Gates

Children, Focus, Remember

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

Time, Women, Feeling

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley

Mind, Bad, Enough

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.
Mike Tyson

Goal, Pray, Sight

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
B. R. Ambedkar

Reason, Conscience, Hinduism

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James

Life, Blame, Why

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce

Art, Human, Logic

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
Stephen Hawking

Work, Good, Forward

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James

Prejudices, Merely

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams

Hope, Freedom, Writing

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
Jim Valvano

Trust, Bad, Him

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
William James

Hate, Real, Else

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley

Life, Effort, Oneself

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Og Mandino

Through, Worth, Stand

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Ambrose Bierce

Nothing, Compromise, Except

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition, General, Greater

I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?
Alice Walker

Emotional, Eyes, Special

I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.
Katy Perry

Love, Music, Good

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
Thomas Paine

Mind, Two, Thoughts

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