Quotes about thinking
552 quotes from 279 people
Agatha Christie1890–1976An Autobiography (1977), Part III: Growing Up, §II
Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 3 (p. 72)They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849“Eleonora” (1841).
Alexander Graham Bell1847–1922Bell Telephone Talk (1901)I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Oliver Cromwell1599–1658Letter to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland (3 August 1650)Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes1883–1946National self-sufficiency, New Statesman and Nation (15 July 1933)
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922) (243)
Emma Goldman1869–1940Intellectual Proletarians (1914)There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind…
Erwin Schrödinger1887–1961“The Oneness of Mind”, as translated in Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Great Physicists (1984) edited by Ken WilberNot to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic? (1947)A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.
Albert Einstein1879–1955“Atomic Education Urged by Einstein”, The New York Times (25 May 1946)An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 3
Simone Weil1909–1943Letter to her parents (1943), as quoted in the Introduction by Siân Miles
