Subject: Intelligence » Thinking (Page 2)

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

(1948 – ) English novelist

When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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

(1863 – 1947) automobile industrialist

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

I wonder what goes through [your dog’s] mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl.

American writer

Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

(1842 – 1910) American philosopher & psychologist

We often think the way Gracie talks, but we pride ourselves that we never talk the way Gracie thinks.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

There are only two problems with people: One is that they don't think; The other is that they do.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Always assume that your assumption is invalid.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

(1858 – 1932) American physicist, physician & humorist

These guys from the nation's capital… now they do a lot of thinking.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.


I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

British boxer

I want to be alone with my thought.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)