Thinking
619 quotes: 75 by Keith Craft, 544 from other voices.
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- Keep before your mind’s eye the image of all you want to be and you will see it reflected in the world without.
- Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.
- Knowledge by rote is no knowledge, it is only a retention of what has been intrusted to the memory.
- Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own.
- Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
- Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
- Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.
- Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
- Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.
- Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
- Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
- Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that are forever blowing through one's mind.
- Life is a mirror of your consistent thoughts.
- Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become - the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life.
- Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Lots of times, our main problem isn't our problem. Our biggest problem is our perspective on our problem.
- Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
- Man is a thought-being, and his life and character are determined by the thoughts in which he habitually dwells.
- Man is ever reaping on the external what he has sown in his thought world.
- Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.
- Man is manacled only by himself...thought and action are the jailers of fate...they imprison or they are angels of freedom...
- Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
- Man is the sum total of his own thoughts; so the question is, how are we going to entertain only the good thoughts and reject the evil ones?Charles F. HaanelSourced
- Man should let alone other's prejudices and examine his own.
- Many of us imprison ourselves in the narrow limited poverty thought, and then, like caged eagles trying in vain to get free, we beat out our wings against the bars we have ourselves put up.
- Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
- Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
- Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.
- Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.
- Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.
- Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.Samuel JohnsonSourced
- Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.Napoleon HillSourced
- Men willingly believe what they wish to be true.
- Mental habits are difficult to control, but it can be done and the way to do it is to begin at once to substitute constructive thought for destructive thought.
- Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.
- Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are answered.
- Mind is the great lever of all things.
- Mind is the infallible weaver of destiny; thought is the thread, good and evil deeds are the warp and woof, and the web, woven upon the loom of life, is character.
- Mind your till, and till your mind.Charles H. SpurgeonSourced