Thinking
619 quotes: 75 by Keith Craft, 544 from other voices.
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- If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
- If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
- If you want to get smart, the question you have to keep asking is why, why, why, why?
- If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.
- If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
- You become what you give your attention to…If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will.
- I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.
- Impossible means that you haven't found a solution yet .
- In all things reason should prevail; it is quite another thing to be stiff, than steady in an opinion.
- In contemplation, if a man begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
- In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution.
- In modern society, most people have access to the same information. People are distinguished much more by the questions they ask than by the answers they have access to.
- In order to take our lives to the next level, we must realize that the same pattern of thinking that has gotten us to where we are now will not get us to where we want to go.
- In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
- Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but, by ascending a little, you may often overlook it altogether.
- Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
- Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less.
- Inward processes of thought make up the sum of character and life, and man can modify and alter these processes by bringing will and effort to bear upon them.
- Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- It is easy to mistake our prejudice for patriotism, our rationalization for reason, our littleness for logic, our theories for truth, and our fervor for fact.
- It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
- It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them.
- It is not external events themselves that cause us distress, but the way in which we think about them…It is our attitudes and reactions that give us trouble. We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
- It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
- It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy.
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
- It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
- It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
- It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
- It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.
- It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
- It’s not things that upset us but our judgments about things.
- It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
- It’s only difficult because you are sitting around thinking about how difficult it is.
- Judgment is not a swift-growing plant; it requires time and culture to mature it.