Thinking is not knowing. [ Portuguese Proverb ]
Thinking nurseth thinking. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
I am wrapped in dismal thinking. [ William Shakespeare ]
To a wise man, living is thinking. [ Proverb ]
Thinking of the days that are no more. [ Tennyson ]
It heeds not whence begins our thinking,
If to the end its flight is high. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Pure logic is a science of form of thinking. [ W. Thomson ]
Literature is the thought of thinking souls. [ Carlyle ]
And steal immortal kisses from her lips;
Which even in pure and vestal modesty.
Still blush as thinking their own kisses sin. [ William Shakespeare ]
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart and gather in the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Man usually believes, if only words he hears.
That also with them goes material for thinking. [ Goethe ]
The highest subject of art for thinking men is man. [ Winkelmann ]
Thinking is the function; living is the functionary. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
It is for want of thinking that most men are undone. [ Proverb ]
A thinking man is always striking out something new. [ Proverb ]
Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain. [ Moore ]
To talk without thinking, is to shoot without aiming. [ Proverb ]
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man. [ Addison ]
There is nothing good or ill, but thinking makes it so. [ Montaignes ]
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. [ Addison ]
Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Suffer thyself to be led in everything but feeling and thinking. [ Sallet ]
A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have. [ Carlyle ]
Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. [ Blaise Pascal ]
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all? [ S. T. Coleridge ]
They that are full of themselves are wise only for want of thinking. [ Proverb ]
Fear of hypocrites and fools is the great plague of thinking and writing. [ J. Janin ]
I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about. [ George Eliot ]
The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous. [ Mme. de Stael ]
There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn. [ Ruskin ]
When men give up saying what is charming, they cease thinking what is charming. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
By forgetting ourselves in thinking of the feelings of others we gain happiness. [ Henry D. Chapin ]
Laws of nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbits and the tides. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]
Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril. [ Pascal ]
Life is long enough for him who knows how to use it. Working and thinking extend its limits. [ Voltaire ]
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking. [ Cowper ]
A fool is happier in thinking well of himself, than a wise man in others thinking well of him. [ Proverb ]
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. [ John Locke ]
What a dismal, debasing, and confusing element is that of a sick body on the human soul or thinking part! [ Carlyle ]
All the thinking in the world does not bring us to thought; we must be right by nature, so that good thoughts may come. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
In this retirement of the mind from the senses, it retains a yet more incoherent manner of thinking, which we call dreaming. [ Locke ]
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to what our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. [ Gibbon ]
The fairest fortune that can fall to a thinking man is to have searched out the searchable, and restfully to adore the unsearchable. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Logic is the art of thinking well; the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way. [ Kames ]
Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking: they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative. [ Dr. Watts ]
What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and thinking. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else; very rarely to those who say to themselves, Go to now, let us be a celebrated individual.
[ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
I never listen to calumnies, because, if they are untrue, I run the risk of being deceived, and if they are true, of hating persons not worth thinking about. [ Montesquieu ]
To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them. [ Ruskin ]
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. [ Lowell ]
We content ourselves to present to thinking minds the original seeds from whence spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged. [ Chevalier Ramsay ]
The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far-reaching, while the former is altogether wanting. [ Joubert ]
Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. [ Washington Irving ]
The fact is, that to do anything in tbia world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. [ Sydney Smith ]
Man is not merely a thinking, he is at the same time a sentient, being. He is a whole, a unity of manifold, internally connected powers, and to this whole must the work of art speak. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The fact is, that to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. [ Sydney Smith ]
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes. [ George Washington ]
Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it. [ Madame de Sevigne ]
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual. Long prior to reflection is the thinking of the mind. [ Emerson ]
A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking. [ Addison ]
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels, - teaching high living, high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and the world's good. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world, words with little meaning, actions with little worth, one loves to reflect on the great empire of silence. The noble silent men, scattered here and there each in his department, silently thinking, silently working; whom no morning newspaper makes mention of. [ Carlyle ]
Experience: in that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives itself. Our observation employed either about external or sensible objects or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. [ John Locke ]
As the health and strength or weakness of our bodies is very much owing to their methods of treating us when we were young, so the soundness or folly of our minds is not less owing to those first tempers and ways of thinking which we eagerly received from the love, tenderness, authority, and constant conversation of our mothers. [ E. Law ]
They that have read about everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections, - we must I chew them over again. [ Channing ]
Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know.
He started telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought: This story isn't too long.
But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, Uh-oh, this story is getting long.
But then the story was over, and I said to myself: You know, that story wasn't too long after all.
I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]