erybody.--Stanislaw J. Lec
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.--James Allen
To think is to differ.--Clarence Darrow (speech at the Scopes trial, 1925)
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.--Eva Young
The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.--Melvin Powers
We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.--Joseph Chilton Pearce
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.--Buddha
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.--Isaac Bashevis Singer
We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.--James W. Fulbright
We must preserve our right to think and differ.--Eleanor Roosevelt
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness - either enforced or voluntary. The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.--Agatha Christie
We think so because other people think so,
Or because--or because--after all, we do think so,
Or because, we were told so, and we must think so,
Or because we once thought so, and think we still think so,
Or because having thought so, we think we will think so.--Henry Sidgwick
We understand that you can't transform people who don't have internal drive and desire to create. But we also know it doesn't work to urge people to think outside the box without giving them the tools to climb out.--Laurie Dunnavant
What is the hardest task in the world? To think.--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Journals)
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.--Adolph Hitler
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.--Walter Lippmann
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.--A. A. Milne (The House at Pooh Corner)
Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition … we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts. And equally, of course, whenever we rebel against the sterile rigidity of formal thought and exposition and let our ideas run wild, we likewise lose. As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of lose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most precious tool of science.--Gregory Bateson ("Culture Contact and Schismogenesis" in Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology)
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things.--Bertrand Russell
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.--John Maynard Keynes
You can't stop people from thinking - but you can start them.--Frank Dusch
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken--unspeakable!--fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse--a little tiny mouse!--of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.--Winston Churchill
Your silent thoughts are like the roots of a plant. They remain hidden in the dark recesses of the earth, but from them stems the whole plant--its life and form, its strength and beauty. From them and through them the plant lives and dies. So, too, your thoughts, although hidden, are your real, vital force.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)