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My thought is me: that is why I can't stop. I exist by what I think...and I can't prevent myself from thinking.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
French philosopher, playwright, and novelist
Nausea
The Master said, "If one learns from others but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril."
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC) Chinese philosopher, administrator, and moralist
The stream of our thought is like a river. On the whole easy simple flowing predominates...But at intervals, an obstruction, a set-back, a log-jam occurs, stops the current, creates an eddy, and makes things move the other way.
William James (1842 - 1910) U.S. psychologist and philosopher The Principles of Psychology
The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.
Søren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855) Danish philosopher Philosophical Fragments
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) English poet and playwright Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
José Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955) Spanish writer and philosopher
Partisan Review, "In Search of Goethe from Within"
We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world...We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
J. William Fulbr