Thinking Quotes

"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own" "Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning." "Quick decisions are unsafe decisions" "We only think when we are confronted with problems" "To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active" "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours" "It is not enough to possess a good mind; one must also apply it" "We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary." "When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself" "Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things" "When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon" "Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing which I call thinking is my supreme Happiness" "Cleverness is not wisdom" "Poetry is a centaur. The thinking, word-arranging, clarifying faculty must move and leap with the energizing, sentient, musical faculties." "How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?"