Thinking
619 quotes: 75 by Keith Craft, 544 from other voices.
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- The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
- The calmer you are, the clearer you think.
- The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.
- The day you think there is no improvement to be made, is a sad oneLionel MessiCommonly attributed
- The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
- The great doers in history have always been men of faith.
- The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulations of others.
- The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
- The greatest achievements of men, were at first, nothing but dreams of the minds of men who knew that dreams are the seedlings of all achievements. A burning desire, to be and to do, is the starting point, from which the dreamer must take off
- The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
- The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- The greatest enemy of learning is knowing.
- The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
- The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- The habit of happy thought would transform the commonest life into harmony and beauty.
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
- The hardest lessons to learn is that you’re more capable than you think you are.
- The heart has eyes that the brain knows nothing of.
- The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.
- The major obstacles to success always lie within the mind of the individual.
- The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
- The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.Christian D. LarsonSourced
- The mental image is what counts, be it for good or ill.
- The mind has a certain vegetative power, which cannot be wholly idle. If it is not laid out and cultivated into a beautiful garden, it will of itself shoot up in weeds or flowers of a wild growth.
- The mind is not a vessel which calls for filling. It is a pile, which simply requires kindling-wood to start the flame of eagerness for original thought and ardour for truth.
- The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.PlutarchCommonly attributed
- The mind of man is often like a house of which he is the landlord; bad tenants are more easily admitted than removed.
- The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.Alice WalkerSourced
- The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.
- The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.
- The most valuable form of mastery isn’t knowledge but the ability to think and work independently.
- The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.
- The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
- The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art in life is to have as many of them as possible.
- The positive thought will destroy the negative as certainly as light destroys darkness, and the results will be just as effectual.
- The power to question is the basis of all human progress.Indira GandhiSourced
- The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
- The prejudiced and obstinate man does not so much hold opinions, as his opinions hold him.
- The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
- The problem is never the problem but the way you see the problem.