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The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The thinker knows he is today where his thoughts have taken him and that he is building his future by the quality of the thoughts he thinks. -- Wilferd Peterson
Brilliant thoughts flow with a life of their own to a dedicated reasoning predator up in a tree with a bow and arrow half the year meditating soulfully in anticipation to kill unsuspecting meat-infested herbivores. -- Ted Nugent
Simplistic ideas are the weapons with which the thoughtful are clubbed. -- James Rozoff
Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times. -- David Ben-Gurion
Almost everybody considers himself capable of thinking and, to a certain degree, whether right or wrong, really does think. Very few, on the contrary, can fancy themselves poets or artists in words. But from the moment when thought won out over style, the mob invaded the novel. -- Albert Camus
Think intelligently.
Think brilliantly.
Think sagaciously.
Think transcendentally. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
Thinking is not yet fully understood. -- James L. Adams
Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition. -- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Little minds think and talk about people.
Average minds think and talk about things and actions.
Great minds think and talk about ideas. -- Benjamin Franklin
Thinking is action ... but there is nothing on this earth as powerful as consistent, bold, physical action. -- Robert Ringer
Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege. -- Guillaume-Thomas Francois Raynal
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. -- Blaise Pascal
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. -- Susan Sontag
Observation enrich your capacity to think. Solababe -- Sola Ogunseitan
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. -- Thomas J. Watson
One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision. -- Ali Ibn Abi Talib
To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge. -- Vera John-Steiner
Thinking is the most overrated human activity. -- Wendell Berry
The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world. -- Andrea Dworkin
The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious. -- David M. Kelley
The word should be thinkering. -- Michael Ondaatje
Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world". -- George Weigel
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas. -- Immanuel Kant
With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit. -- Robert Musil
We are the producers of our own thinking. Thought is not something that happens to us, but something that we do to ourselves. -- John Spence
Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction. -- Jack Donovan
Genius is intellect constructive. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thought is the seed of action. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers. -- John C. Maxwell
Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative. -- Eckhart Tolle
If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Ideas are spiritual, harmonious and eternal -- Mary Baker Eddy
To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance. -- Barbara W. Tuchman
Thought is the most powerful creative energy in this universe. -- Debasish Mridha
Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. -- Harry Lorayne
When standing before certain men the philosopher regrets that thinkers are but perishable tissue, the artist that perishable tissue has to think. -- Thomas Hardy
Philosophers think, creators make! -- Stephen Richards
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think. -- Bertolt Brecht
Free thinker walks on shortcuts among wisdoms. -- Toba Beta
Great thinking comes from a great mind -- Nelson Mandela
The unceasing flow of thought in all its various forms is an inescapable and defining aspect of the human condition. -- Paul O'brien
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think. -- Edith Hamilton
Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences. -- John Dewey
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thought is action in rehearsal. -- William Zinsser
linger among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works, -- Seneca.
Thought is the source of all wealth, all success, all achievement. Our dominant thoughts determine our individuality, our career, our daily life. -- Joan Bennett Kennedy
Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings. -- Agnes Denes
Thought is the thought of thought. -- James Joyce
A character is made by the kind of thoughts a man thinks when alone, and a civilization is made by the kind of thoughts a man speaks to his neighbor. On -- Fulton J. Sheen
To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions. -- Angela Harris
Genius: the superhuman in man. -- Victor Hugo
Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into inalterable systems. -- Thomas M. Disch
The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when clouds suddenly appear to think. -- Charles Baxter
Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness. -- Eckhart Tolle
Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious. -- Walter Lippmann
Is there a thinker apart from thought? -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. -- Harriet Martineau
It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day, this is the work of genius. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Genius ... arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena. -- Mary Hunter Austin
Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas -- Eleanor Roosevelt
You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it -- Laurie Viera Rigler
Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active. -- William Kingdon Clifford
Creative thinking poses a dynamic asset to every human -- Wogu Donald
To think is not enough, you must think of something. -- Jules Renard
When we expand our thinking, we expand who we are as human beings: the perspective from which we view the world, and the concepts and values we use to guide our choices. -- John Chaffee
People must learn how to think well to achieve their dreams and to reach their potential. -- John C. Maxwell
The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are. -- Eckhart Tolle
Good, don't think. Thinking is highly overrated. -- Mary Jane Auch
So many thinkers, so few doers. -- Nabil N. Jamal
Diversity of thought is in demand, for boosting collective creativity and harnessing collective wisdom. -- Pearl Zhu
Thought is the fountain of speech. -- Chrysippus
Thought is invisible nature. -- Heinrich Heine
People with imagination -- Arthur Levine
The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness. -- Rene Thom
Thinking is seeing ... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. -- Honore De Balzac
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think. -- Neil Degrasse Tyson
Design is thinking made visible. -- Unknown
Moving man's view of himself and life past common thinking, the true visionary faces great difficulty: exactly that deluded mindset the sage would have listeners outgrow is the very filter through which any new perspective must pass. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions. -- William James
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists. -- Tom Robbins
Wisdom requires a flexible mind. -- Dan Carlin
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding. -- Friedrich August Von Hayek
Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits! -- Raheel Farooq
All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect. -- Maria Konnikova
Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it. -- Henry Ford
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself -- Plato
There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots -- Douglas Adams
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles. -- John Dewey
A lot of writing is thinking. -- Horton Foote
Great thinkers are the grateful thankers - the real greats live gratefully. -- Ann Voskamp
If there were nothing but thought in you. You wouldn't even know your thinking.
You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he's dreaming. You would be as identified with thought as a dreamer is with every image in the dream. -- Eckhart Tolle
Thoughts are idea put on paper that transform into goals. -- Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Thoughts are odd misfires -- Patricia Cornwell
With our thoughts we make the world. -- Gautama Buddha
Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness -- Amit Gupta
