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| There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation many things remain incomprehensible and dark. And though the society in which we live considers such actions thoughtless, or reckless, or I don't k | | Vincent van Gogh | |
| 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 | | Thomas Paine | |
| There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. | | Alfred Korzybski | |
| Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too | | Voltaire | |
| Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
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| Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. | | Henry Ford | |
| Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity. | | Oscar Wilde | |
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| To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. | | Alvin Toffler | |
| We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us | | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. | | Buddha | |
| We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. | | Isaac Bashevis Singer | |
| We think as we do, mainly because other people think so | | Samuel Butler | |
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| What we think, we become. | | Buddha | |
| When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. | | Thomas Paine | |
