Thinking Quotes

"Journeys are the midwives of thought."

Alain de Botton

"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking."

Albert Einstein

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."

Confucius

"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider."

Francis Bacon

"Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think."

Steve Jobs

"Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country."

"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking."

Carl Sagan

"Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is."

Robert M. Pirsig

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

B. F. Skinner

"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."

Albert Einstein

"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."

Lily Tomlin

"Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results."

John Dewey

"Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life."

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

Mark Twain

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."

Carl Sagan

"The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment."

C. V. Raman

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

William Lawrence Bragg

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

Margaret Mead

“Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.”

“The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”

“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”

“There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.”

“Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.”

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”