» Add Quotes to Your Site - Quote Generatoradd quote of the day, random quotes or by topic (e.g. funny quotes) Quote DB :: Thinking Search in this category Genius (21) Ideas (29) Intelligence (24) Quote Author Rating Rate "Strength of mind is exercise, not rest." Alexander Pope "If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." George Patton "If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking." George Patton "Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account." Marcel Proust "Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind." Marcel Proust "In the United States the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own." Alexis de Tocqueville "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." John Locke "I think; therefore I am." Rene Descartes "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." Euripides "That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind." Frank Moore Colby "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." George Bernard Shaw "It is your mind that creates this world." Siddhartha Buddha "Great spirits have always encountered violent oppostion from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein "Learning without thought is labor lost." Confucius "Nothing pains some people more than having to think." Martin Luther King Jr. "Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions." Martin Luther King Jr. "To think is to differ." Clarence Darrow "In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart." Sigmund Freud "Reason is experimental intelligence, conceived after the pattern of science, and used in the creation of social arts; it has something to do. It liberates man from the bondage of the past, due to ignorance and accident hardened into custom. It projects a better future and assists man in its realization." John Dewey "I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it." Terry Pratchett 1 2 3 Next >> Browse Thinking quotes by Author: Albert Einstein Alexander Pope Alexis de Tocqueville Author Unknown Benjamin Franklin Bertrand Russell Christopher Morley Clarence Darrow Confucius C.S. Lewis Euripides Frank Moore Colby Friedrich Dürrenmatt George Bernard Shaw George Patton Henry Ford Jason Mechalek Johann Wolfgang von Goethe John Dewey John Locke Laurence Peter Leonardo da Vinci Ludwig Wittgenstein Mahatma Gandhi Marcel Proust Mark Twain Martin Luther King Jr. Nachman of Bratslav Niels Bohr Oliver Wendell Holmes Ralph Waldo Emerson Rene Descartes Roger Ebert Siddhartha Buddha Sigmund Freud Socrates Terry Pratchett Theodor Seuss Geisel Thomas Edison Thomas Paine Walter Lippman Wayne Dyer William James