Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
“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. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible.
People stop thinking when they cease to read.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
I love seeing a house and thinking about how it should be redone or restored.
Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.
“What you're thinking is what you're becoming.”
I was walking through the woods, thinking about christ. If he was a carpenter, I wondered what he charged for bookshelves.
When one thinks what one leaves in the world when one dies, Only silence is strong, - all the rest is but lies.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in english departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.
My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.