We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. —Isaac Bashevis Singer

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.          —Thomas J. Watson

Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.             —Martin L. King, Jr

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

—Marcus Aurelius

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.                                                                                  —Galileo Galilei

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly begin to think for itself and such thinking, remember is original thinking and may have valuable results.               —Agatha Christie

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.               —James Thurber

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.             —Aristotle

Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds. —Ivanla Vanzant

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

—Christopher Morley

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

—Eva Young

When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.

—Walter Lippmann

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken — unspeakable! — fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse — a little tiny mouse! — of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.                —Winston Churchill