Thinking Quotations

Ten random inspirational quotations about various aspects of thinking are displayed below. Use the search boxes to the right, to search for quotations by category, person, time period and key word. Use these quotes by famous people for daily inspiration.

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Larry Brown

'After a year in therapy my psychiatrist said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'.

Time period: 18th/19th Century
Categories: Belief

Martin Luther King, Jr.

'Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.'

Time period: 20th/21st century
Categories: General Faith

Woody Allen

'Eighty percent of success is showing up.'

Time period: Any period
Categories: Success

Leonardo Da Vinci

'The desire to know is natural to good men.'

Time period: 16th/17th Century
Categories: Knowledge Learning

George Bernard Shaw

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone

Time period: 20th/21st century
Categories: Wisdom

Charles Darwin

'If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.'

Time period: 18th/19th Century
Categories: General Weakness

Francis Bacon

'Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'

Time period: 16th/17th Century
Categories: Truth Wisdom

Anna Freud

'Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned.'

Time period: 18th/19th Century
Categories: General

James Frey

'The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.'

Time period: Any period
Categories: Writing

Abraham Lincoln

'The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.'

Time period: 18th/19th Century
Categories: Friendship

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