Quotes about Thinking

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

Have you reason? 'I have.' Then why not use it? If reason does its part, what more would you ask?

Oblivion is increasingly attractive to the young, and even to the middle-aged, since why retain your brain when no amount of thinking can even begin to solve the problem?

The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world.

The key piece of leverage was this promise: follow these instructions and you don't have to think. Do your job and you don't have to be responsible for decisions. Most of all, you don't have to bring your genius to work.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

There is no room for Judah's thinking that its position as the people of God means it will escape if its stance toward Yahweh is no different from theirs.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.