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thinking

Quotes including the word “thinking”.

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Leonard Cohen

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

Einstein

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Hemingway

All thinking men are atheists.

William James

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices

Samuel Johnson

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Carl Jung

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Carl Jung

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Wassily Kandinsky

Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking!

Kazantzakis

Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to   act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.

Kierkegaard

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Krishnamurti

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

John Locke

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Amos Oz

Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved ones for their own good because we think we know better than them what is good and what is bad for them, what is right and what is wrong in their thinking.

Thomas Paine

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.

Octavio Paz

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

Octavio Paz

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Sartre

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Skinner

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

Sophocles

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

John Steinbeck

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

Thucydides

“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

B. W. Yeats

For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.