45 Thinking Quotes to share with friends and relatives

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. – G.C. Lichtenberg

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. – Albert Einstein

Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss. – Anthony Liccione

One cannot think crooked and walk straight. – Author Unknown

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity. – Henry Van Dyke

Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers. – Bruce Calvert

Practical gentlemen hate uncertainty, balancing of probabilities, skepticism or approximation. They have a number of bitterly satirical comments on persons whose minds are so open that their brains fall out. They are bent on getting to a conclusion. – Max Radin, 1937

Sometimes I think and other times I am. – Paul ValÃ©ry, VariÃ©tÃ©: Cantiques spirituels, 1924

Few minds wear out; more rust out. – Christian N. Bovee

What a blessing it is to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

We use 10% of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60%. – Ellen Degeneres

A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot…. We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, 1860

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information. – John Erskine

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Men can live without air a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for about two months â€” and without a new thought for years on end. – Kent Ruth

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. – John Locke, 16 May 1699

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. – George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough. – Confucius, Analects