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| No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ~ Voltaire |
| Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ~ Edmund Burke |
| Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ~ Carl G. Jung |
| Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. ~ Lorraine Hansberry, |
| No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. ~ Terry Josephson |
| You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think. ~ Walter Anderson, |
| Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~ Winnie the Pooh |
| People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ~ Soren Kierkegaard |
| Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ~ John F. Kennedy |
| The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. ~ Will Durant |
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| Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in. ~ Alan Alda |
| I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree. ~ James Douglas |
| The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it. ~ H.G. Wells |
| Our minds are lazier than our bodies. ~ François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, |
| Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest. ~ Author Unknown |
| Some people get lost in thought because it’s such unfamiliar territory. ~ G. Behn |
| Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself. ~ Josiah Royce |
| It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. ~ Luther Burbank |
| Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. ~ L’Estrange |
| Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds and to make the agony of the decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking. ~ Author Unknown |
| Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. ~ Havelock Ellis, |
| The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés. ~ H.L. Mencken, |
| Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week. ~ George Bernard Shaw |
| …the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it… ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, |
| Belief is when someone else does the thinking. ~ Buckminster Fuller |
| Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, |
| A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don’t bite everybody. ~ Stanislaw Lec, |
| Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. ~ G.C. Lichtenberg |