Thinking
619 quotes: 75 by Keith Craft, 544 from other voices.
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- They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm: they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.
- Think like a scientist: treat your opinions as hypotheses and decisions as experiments.
- Think right, act right; it is what we think and do that makes us what we are.
- Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
- Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible.
- Thinking is by far the most underrated activity. People consider it “unproductive” to sit on a bench and think. So they spend their lives doing things they never thought through. An hour of clear thinking can yield a conclusion that changes your life.
- Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
- Thinking is the hardest work any one can do—which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.
- Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
- Those are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.
- Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think for themselves.
- Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.
- Thoughts have consequences. Healing from anxiety requires healthy thinking. Your challenge is not your challenge. Your challenge is the way you think about your challenge. Your problem is not your problem; it's the way you look at it.
- Thoughts of doubt and fear never accomplished anything, and never can.
- To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius.
- To know by rote is no knowledge; it is only a retention of what is intrusted to the memory. That which a man truly knows may be disposed of without regard to the author, or reference to the book from whence he had it.
- To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.
- To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and to surround yourself with inferior things.
- To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
- To shoot straight, you've got to aim straight; and to aim straight you've got to look straight; and to look straight you've got to think straight.
- To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise — and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
- To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.
- To think you can creates the force that can.
- To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.
- Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions – not outside.
- Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
- True fortitude of understanding consists in not suffering what we do know to be disturbed by what we do not know.
- Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
- Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
- Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
- We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.
- We are afraid of having and showing a small mind and we are not afraid of having and showing a small heart.
- We are more easily persuaded, in general, by the reasons we ourselves discover, than by those which have been suggested to us by others.
- We are not burdened by society's expectations, but rather, the expectations which we place on ourselves.
- We are ruined not by what we really want, but by what we think we do.
- We are the producers of our own thinking. Thought is not something that happens to us, but something that we do to ourselves.
- We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
- We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
- We become what we think about most of the time.