Thinking
619 quotes: 75 by Keith Craft, 544 from other voices.
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- Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
- As a man molds and develops his gray matter, he creates himself.
- As important as keeping a grasp on reality is keeping a grasp on possibility.
- As our acts and our thoughts are, so will our lives be.
- As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.
- As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.
- As you think, you travel; as you love, you attract.
- At first we can't keep the evil thoughts from coming, but we can keep from entertaining them.
- Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.Aaron SwartzCommonly attributed
- Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.
- Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
- By far the most vital lesson I have ever learned is the importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are. Our thoughts make us what we are.
- Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
- Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Character and Intellect: the two poles of our capacity; one without the other is but halfway to happiness. Intellect sufficeth not, character is also needed.
- Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
- Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
- Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.
- Consider how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
- Control your thought and you will control circumstances.
- Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.
- Create your own thought and you become what you want to become because your thought creates you.
- Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.
- Creativity is the willingness to experiment.
- Deliberation is necessary, unless we wish to play a fool's part. No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life, with its eyes shut, is a kind of wild insanity. A drifting life, with its eyes open, is a kind of mild idiocy.
- Despondency and cheerfulness, anger and calmness, covetousness and generosity--indeed, all states of mind--are habits built up by choice, until they have become automatic.
- Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Do not think of your faults; still less of others' faults: in every person who comes near you, look for what is good and strong: honour that; rejoice in it; and, as you can, try to imitate it.
- Don’t just follow people because you agree with what they think. Follow them because you’re intrigued by how they think – and how they make you think.
- Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.
- Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.
- Don't think, feel....it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!Bruce LeeSourced
- Each one sees what he carries in his heart.
- Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.
- Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.
- Every condition, every experience of life is the result of our mental attitude.
- Every event, every condition, every thing is first an idea in the mind of someone.
- Every good thought you think adds to your mental resources and reserves.