Quotes for Wise Thinking

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

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

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

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.

To think is to differ.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Anyone who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that, thoughts.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Wise thinking begins with asking better questions.

Slow your thinking. Quick reactions cost dearly.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

To think clearly, you must remove certainty.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

You cannot solve a problem at the level of consciousness that created it.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

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

Sometimes the most important thinking happens when you stop trying.

Think big. Start small. Move steady.

Wise thinking is willing to be wrong.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Thinking is the soul of being.

Real thinkers do not need certainty. They need clarity.