Thinking - Quotes
Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
If you`re always thinking about the future, then you kinda forget about the present.
I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
If two things don`t fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that`s credulity.
Thinking must never submit itself, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea, nor to whatever it may be, if not to facts themselves, because, for it, to submit would be to cease to be.
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.
Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I`ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.