Quotes with thinking

  • Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
  • It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
  • Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
  • Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
  • Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking.
  • Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
  • Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.
  • The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
  • Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
  • Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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  • Acharya Mahapragya Thinking is good, but excessive thinking is not. Between thoughts if there is a period of thoughtlessness, thoughts will be fresh and pathbreaking. A thinker will be able to cultivate a strain of healthy thoughts only when he pays attention to thoughtlessness also.
    Thought at Sunrise (2007)
    Acharya Mahapragya
     
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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson Big thinking precedes great achievement.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • Horace Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Thomas Paine When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the perfect dad? I shudder at thinking what that may be.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • William James A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Paine A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Barbara de Angelis A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Confucius Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Barrymore I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Andrew Young I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • B. R. Ambedkar In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Bob Dylan Johnny's in the basement
    Mixing up the medicine
    I'm on the pavement
    Thinking about the government
    The man in the trenchcoat
    Badge out, laid off
    Says he's got a bad cough
    Wants to get it paid off
    Look out kid
    It's somethin' you did
    God knows when
    But you're doin' it again
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alice Hoffman Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
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  • John Jay Chapman Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Albert Einstein Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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