food for thought: 0n thinking

• “The test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them better.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
  
• Think like Nature. Ask “How would Nature solve this problem?” – Jonas Salk
  
  
• “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
  
  
• “Ninety percent of the game is half mental." –Yogi Berra
  
  
• “Few people think more than two or three times a year. I’ve made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.” – GBS
  
  
• “What luck for rulers that men do not think.” – Adolf Hitler
  
  
• “A conclusion is a place where you get tired of thinking.” – Edward deBono
  
  
• “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” – William James
  
  
• “All generalization are dangerous, even this one.” – Alexander Dumas
  
  
• “People only see what they are prepared to see.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• “Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you want with them.” – Plato
  
  
• “When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.” – Abraham Maslow
  
  
• “Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.” – Emile Chartier
  
  
• “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to deal with them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” – John Steinbeck
  
  
• “Time and space are modes by which we think, not conditions in which we live.” – Albert Einstein
  
  
• “They can because they think they can.” – Virgil
  
  
• “Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire." – Jean de La Fontaine