Thinking
619 quotes: 75 by Keith Craft, 544 from other voices.
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- A man is as old as his arteries, and as young as his ideas.
- A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.Mahatma GandhiSourced
- A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
- A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
- A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
- A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
- A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
- A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return.
- A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
- A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
- A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.
- A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favour or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts.
- A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.
- A refusal to face reality allows it to stab you in the back.
- A river never beats its head against obstacles. It always goes around, and it always gets to the sea.
- A self-controlled mind is a free mind, and freedom is power.
- A thought constantly repeated at last becomes a fixed habit of the mind, and from such habits proceeds the life.
- A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.
- A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
- Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
- Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.
- Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
- All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
- All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
- All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
- All things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.
- All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
- Alter your attitude of mind towards it, and at once the crooked path is made straight, the unhappiness is turned into joy.
- Always think on paper.
- Amateurs believe that the world should work the way they want it to. Professionals realize that they have to work with the world as they find it.
- An hour of thinking can save a decade of struggle.
- An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
- An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
- An intelligent mind is one which is constantly learning, never concluding.
- An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
- Anger and frustration are rarely caused by other people’s actions. They’re caused by how you interpret their actions. To change your reactions, question your explanations. You know what they did, but not why. New interpretations pave the way to new emotions.
- Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.