Thinking Quotes

The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.

It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.

Even people who aren't geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

Men who think deeply say little in ordinary conversations.

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice.

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.

A fool suffers, thinking, 'I have children! I have wealth!' One's self is not even one's own. How then are children? How then is wealth.

There are four nutriments for the maintenance of beings who have come into being or for the support of those in search of a place to be born: Physical food, gross or refined; touch as the second; thinking the third; and consciousness the fourth.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

I have found that when one is embarrassed, usually the shortest way to get through with it is to quit talking or thinking about it, and go at something else.

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.