Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

The best thing you can do to an audience is to make them work.

It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.

Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can't reach otherwise.It forces you to think. It forces you to work the thing through. Nothing comes to us out of the blue, very easily.

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.

Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.

What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

You can't just have a thought. You have to follow the thought through. But everything starts with the thought.

Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.