As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.
Lao Tzu
Feelings are invulnerable to rational thought.
Stephen King
You don’t have to torture your consciousness with endless thinking.
Jack Kerouac
Being scared is caused mostly by thinking.
David Foster Wallace
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy
Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.
Osho
Everyone pretends to be ‘free thinkers’, but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.
Criss Jami
You need all kinds of influences, including negative ones, to challenge what you believe in.
Bill Murray
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The most powerful form of hard work is thinking clearly.
James Clear
Take a moment before defending yourself and consider all the ways in which the other person may be right.
Neil Strauss
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Writing is not the most important thing; thinking is. But writing is probably the best way to improve your thinking.
Matt Mullenweg
Pen, ink and paper and a sitting posture are great helps to attention and thinking.
John Adams
Think through time – what do the consequences look like in 10 minutes? 10 months? 10 Years?
Shane Parrish
The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas.
Lao Tzu
An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
Jef Mallett
The thinker needs no one to refute him, for that he has himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Your mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
Banksy
The people who don’t think are the ones who never listen.
Haruki Murakami
We waste our time with short term thinking and busywork. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades.
Naval Ravikant
There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: “Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time”.
Susan Sontag
One great idea had walking down the beach can be worth more than a lifetime of hard work.
Gary Halbert
You must learn to master a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.
Marianne Williamson
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think.
Warren Buffett
We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
Noam Chomsky
The best way to improve your ability to think is to spend time thinking.
Shane Parrish
Much learning does not produce thought.
Heraclitus
Think for yourself, not of yourself. Think of others, not for others.
Naval Ravikant
I don’t care what people think, because people don’t think.
Kanye West
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
Thomas A. Edison
Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.
Henry Ford
Right thinking comes with self-knowledge. Without understanding yourself, you have no basis for thought.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen Keller
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
As a rule, you must always reserve the right to laugh the next day at your thoughts of the previous night.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire
Spend at least one hour a day thinking. Just thinking, alone, in silence. No music. No book. No one. Your mind gets clearer. Your relationships get healthier. Your life gets better.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Think hard, dig deep, do not take appearances for reality.
Robert Greene
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do not fall into groupthink – the irrationality of collective decision-making.
Robert Greene
Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.
Karen Joy Fowler
There is such a thing as being too rational. A certain level of delusion is necessary in order to succeed.
Preethi Kasireddy