quotations about thinking
Try thinking more if just for your own sake
THE BEATLES
"Think for Yourself", Rubber Soul
There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
In human affairs, all that endures is what men think.
ISABEL PATERSON
The God of the Machine
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
CONFUCIUS
The Analects
There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.
SHERWOOD ANDERSON
letter to his publisher, Ben Huebsch, New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio
Thinking is but an idle waste of thought,
And naught is everything, and everything is naught.
HORACE & JAMES SMITH
Rejected Addresses
Thinking isn't to agree or disagree--that's voting.
ROBERT FROST
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes