Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand RussellWe are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.
Charles BukowskiHe who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
ConfuciusI don’t easily fall for lies, I can see through things.
Greta ThunbergAs for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.
Noam ChomskyI often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.
Kamala HarrisI love trying new things.
The WeekndThinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.
Robert FrostThe need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
Albert CamusI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean-Jacques RousseauAll of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.
John C. MaxwellI’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThis will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert HubbardThe dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.
Carl SaganThinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry FordI hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
Ray BradburyThe critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Oscar WildeEmployers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
Stephen CoveyIt is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
AristotleOne who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Lao TzuHaving a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.
Wayne DyerA good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
PlatoI still think like a Marxist in many ways.
Christopher HitchensThe problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.
Elon MuskWe’ve got to dumb America up again.
Ray BradburyConvictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich NietzscheI know that the arts are important. I’m not denying that, but I can’t associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.
Anthony HopkinsGood thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.
John C. MaxwellAs a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
Madeleine AlbrightLearning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
ConfuciusIt is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Thomas JeffersonThink for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
VoltaireNothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
Blaise PascalThinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.
Eckhart TolleAll of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
Thomas SowellReserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
HypatiaThings that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
Jim RohnScience is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George EliotWe must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
George Bernard ShawWe cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert EinsteinWhat can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Christopher HitchensNo man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWe are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
Vivienne WestwoodAs the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur SchopenhauerI find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.
Robert GreeneSolutions are not the answer.
Richard M. NixonThere are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David ThoreauJudge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
VoltaireWhere the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo GalileiEducation is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
Thomas SowellPeople are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Blaise PascalOnly the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.
Christopher HitchensMistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
Thomas SowellIf you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
Kurt VonnegutI’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Terry PratchettWe can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert EinsteinI feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.
The WeekndThe 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 NietzscheThe problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
Thomas Sowell