Thinking

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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

The secret to humor is surprise.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

When you know a thing, hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, allow that you do not know it. This is knowledge.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

An open heart is an open mind.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own reason.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

We see things not as they are, but as we are.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Think before you think.

Have you noticed that the easiest people to get along with are those who agree with you?

To find a needle in a haystack is simple; you just have to remove the hay.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything — and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.