Thinking

Think any way you please, but know why. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. – Voltaire

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. – Carl G. Jung

You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think. – Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. – SÃ¸ren Kierkegaard

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. – Will Durant

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree. – James Douglas

The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it. – H.G. Wells

Our minds are lazier than our bodies. – FranÃ§ois VI de la Rochefoucault

Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest. – Author Unknown

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself. – Josiah Royce

It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. – Luther Burbank

Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. – Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichÃ©s. – H.L. Mencken, Prejudices, 1925

…the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it… – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

Belief is when someone else does the thinking. – Buckminster Fuller, 1972

Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks, 1508