The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself — and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

—Agatha Christie

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.

—Adolph Hitler

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you.

—Donald Robert Perry

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

—Aristotle

All that we are is the result of what we have thought... If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him... If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.                                        —Buddha

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.

—Paul Fix

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

—Soren Kierkegaard

People don’t ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

—Robert Keith Leavitt

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

—J. Michael Straczynski

Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

—Martin L. King, Jr

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

—John Locke

A man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

—Max R. Hickerson

If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors, we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain.

–Charles B. Newcomb

The direction of a man’s thought is always the decisive factor in his personality. His whole outer life will be determined by the inward inclination of his mind.             –Erich Sauer