"I don't mind that you think slowly but I do mind that you are publishing faster than you think." Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel laureate (1900-1958)

"Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel." John Churton Collins

"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched." George Jean Nathan

"The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think." Malcolm De Chazal, writer and painter (1902-1981)

"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence." Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (b. 1920)

"Don't worry what other people think, they don't do it very often." unknown

"The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most." Ann Landers

"Let our advance worrying
become advance thinking and planning."
 Winston Churchill

"Language is the dress of thought." Samuel Johnson

"A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them." Frank A. Clark

"What we think or what we know; or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do." John Ruskin

"Where thoughts go, action flows." Jack Reitz

"There is much more to the mind than just thinking. When your mind is silent, the Universe surrenders." Master Sun, 7 minutes of magic

"Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries." Astrid Alauda

"An hour of hard critical thinking can be worth more than a month of hard work." Tim Ferriss

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." Siddhartha

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." A. A. Milne

" Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." Chinese Proverb

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." Alexander Graham Bell

"Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water." Barbara Sher

"Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." Theodore N. Vail

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." Albert Einstein

"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes." Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

"Art is the expression of the most profound thoughts in the simplest way." Albert Einstein

"What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading." Eleanor Roosevelt

"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too." Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)

"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge; both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) American motivational author & speaker 

"Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." George Orwell, 1984

"Civilisation advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them." Alfred North Whitehead

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)

"Adults are more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting." Richard Pascale, Surfing the Edge of Chaos

"The moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow." Henry David Thoreau

"The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly." Ogden Nash, author (1902-1971)

"Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction." Francis Picabia, painter and poet (1879-1953)

"The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold." Glenn Doman

"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds." George Santayana

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963)

"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child." Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it . . . ." Soren Kierkegaard

"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think." James McCosh

"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too." Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)

“There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.” George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." Benjamin Disraeli

"You don’t have to believe everything you think." anonymous

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." B. F. Skinner

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.” Mortimer Adler

“The power to command frequently causes failure to think.” Barbara Tuchman, author and historian (1912-1989)

“We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books . It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranges and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations.” Albert Einstein

“The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.” Charles Reznikoff, poet (1894-1976)

“The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.” Agatha Christie

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)

“The conviction that we think in our sleep has been around far longer than neurophysiology or psychoanalysis.'Let me sleep on it' is not always a way of postponing a decision; it may also be a recourse to the folk wisdom that knows there is more than one way to think about a problem.” A. Alvarez

“Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.” Iara Gassen

“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” Eva Young

“Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.” Edward De Bono, consultant, writer, and speaker (1933- )

“Few people think more than two or three times a year. I've made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.” George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)

“The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.” Christopher Morley

“We are nature’s unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex.” Jacob Bronowski

“It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.” Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English politician and author

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.” Henry Ford

“We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.” Michael Crichton

“The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if one will only take the pains to train the mind to think. Why do so many men never amount to anything? Because they don't think.” Thomas Edison

“Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.” Jenny Holzer

“The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.” J. Michael Straczynski

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” Soren Kierkegaard

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” William James

“If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.” George S. Patton

“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.” Bill Meyer