Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Ambrose Bierce

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
Ambrose Bierce

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Earl Nightingale

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
William Glasser

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
George Orwell

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
Richard Dawkins

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
Marquis de Sade

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
Virginia Woolf

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Virginia Woolf

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
Virginia Woolf

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.
Donald Trump

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Deepak Chopra

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
Donald Trump

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
Joan Rivers

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Og Mandino

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
Jiddu Krishnamurti