Thinking Quotes - Page 23

• Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, as much as he please; he will never know any of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind. Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Men, Mind, Saying Too Much

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• And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist--
  I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be
  missed!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Novelists, Anomalies

  The Mikado act 1 (1885)

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• It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

  Warren Buffett

  Loss, Exercise, Bridges

  "The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy". Book by Robert G. Hagstrom (p. 112), 2000.

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• Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth - of carefully respecting the property of others - of scrupulously abstaining from all acts of improvidence which can involve him in distress, and he will just as likely think of rushing into the element in which he cannot breathe, as of lying or cheating or stealing.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Cheating, Children, Lying

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 295), 1895.

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• Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The wheels of the steamship turned as swiftly as they do now, but as silent and unsubstantial as the motions of the inventor's thought; and in the noiseless loom of his meditation were woven the sinews of the printing-press, whose thunder shakes the world.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Civilization, Ideas, Meditation

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• With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophical, Rivals, Might

  "Athenaeum Fragments". Book by Friedrich Schlegel (1798), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophical, Writing, Thoughtful

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• There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

  Margaret of Valois

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.

  B. C. Forbes

  Photography, Moving, Opportunity

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• I think it's something that dawns on you with the most ghastly, inexorable sense. I didn't suddenly wake up in my pram one day and say 'Yippee, I - ', you know. But I think it just dawns on you, you know, slowly, that people are interested in one, and slowly you get the idea that you have a certain duty and responsibility.

  Prince Charles

  Responsibility, Ideas, People

  "The Prince of Wales: Full text of replies in radio debut". "The Times" Newspaper, March 3, 1969.

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• There may be beings, thinking beings, near or surrounding us, which we do not perceive, which we cannot imagine. We know very little; but, in my opinion, we know enough to hope for the immortality, the individual immortality, of the better part of man.

  Humphry Davy

  Men, May, Littles

  Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy (1839). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy”, p.452

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• Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Hands, Feet, Evil

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• Those who win are those who think they can.

  Richard Bach

  Positive, Attitude, Winning

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• The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy...

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Greed, Bourgeoisie

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.

  Evel Knievel

  Hurt, Pain, Eye

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• Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.

  Carl Jung

  Feelings, Intuition, Four

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• [On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.

  Sarah Louise Delany

  Years, People, Age

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• I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Sleep, Would Be, Eternity

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, December 9, 1890.

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• Are your desires purely selfish? Do your tastes run to a grand home, automobiles, fine clothes, an abundance of amusements, and so forth? If so, look around you at people who have such things in superabundance. Are they any happier, do you think, than you are? Are they any better morally? Are they any stronger physically? Are they better liked by their friends than you are by your friends? ... Carnegie said, Millionaires rarely smile. This is substantially true.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Selfish, Home

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• All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Religious, Men, Intuition

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• It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Death, Real, Loss

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• June 1st is a date that is looming in everybody's mind with the final enforcement of the UIGEA. I actually think it may, finally, once and for all prove that it's an ineffective law. Congress created that law and now Congress has to do something to correct it.

  John Pappas

  June, Law, Mind

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• Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Growing Up, Father, Turkeys

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• I dont think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

  Benjamin Booker

  Journalist, Wanted

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• Now think about the Universal Law. It reflects to you exactly and precisely what you put out. If your thought-forms say, "I haven't got a clue about what I want," the Universal Law is going to say, "Listen, mate, if you haven't got a clue, neither have I.

  Stuart Wilde

  Law, Want, Clue

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.149, Hay House, Inc

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