Thinking Quotes

"You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will." - Stephen King

"What we think, we become." - Buddha

"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" - Winnie the Pooh

"Think for yourself, not of yourself. Think of others, not for others." - Naval Ravikant

"Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy

"One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans -- anything except reason." - Thomas Sowell

"Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains." - Steve Jobs

"We become what we think about." - Earl Nightingale

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude." - Oprah Winfrey

"I don't care what people think, because people don't think." - Kanye West

"Every thought we think is creating our future." - Louise Hay

"One small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day." - Anonymous

"No matter where you work or live or what occupation you engage in negative or undermining forces are constant. But, you have been armed with positive thinking that permeates each and very thorny bush within the garden of life." - Catherine Pulsifer

"Whether you think you can, or think you can't -- you're right." - Henry Ford

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." - Albert Einstein

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

"Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)" - Rene Descartes

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition." - Steve Jobs

"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions." - Carter G. Woodson

"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done." - Bruce Lee

"I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love." - W. E. B. Du Bois