Thinking Quotes

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.

I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.

Thought is born of failure.

I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases.

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

You can't change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh what you're thinking about, you can put some fresh air in your brain.

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how many magic thoughts are necessary elements even of natural science today.

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

Turn wishful thinking into positive action. Those who take a proactive stance in their lives tend to have an ample supply of joy and pleasure

I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].

Normally when people say they haven't decided, they're being polite but they're definitely not voting for you. I think it's different this time. People are thinking hard about the issues.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

I'm such a workaholic. I'm always thinking about work.

Whatever is... is best.

One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.

I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.

The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.

I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it's also about the ability to do systems thinking.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

For you to be free of your thinking mind, that will cost you the way that you've put your self together. It will cost you your patterned self.

Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.

I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow.

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.

Sometimes I think and other times I am.