Thinking Quotes

"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think." "There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous." "To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them" "To be successful, you need to be an independent thinker" "Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is even in shorter supply than genius" "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think" "Everything begins with an idea" "Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place" "It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view" "The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think" "Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own" "Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning." "Quick decisions are unsafe decisions" "We only think when we are confronted with problems" "To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active" "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours" "It is not enough to possess a good mind; one must also apply it" "We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary." "When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself" "Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things"