quotations about thinking
I view everything in life as white or black. I don't see color when it comes to life, lessons, situations, or the world. I think either it's meant to be or not, it's going to happen or it won't, either it's fate or it's not. There is no in between in my thoughts. This is the exact way I look at my life and trying to be perfect within it. It's not easy to explain, but when I fail at something I must sulk on it for days or weeks because it throws off my way of thinking.
CHERI VOIGT
"WRITE TEAM: Black-and-white thinking", My Web Times, May 18, 2017
We never think entirely alone; we think in company, in a vast collaboration; we work with the workers of the past and of the present.
ANTONIN SERTILLANGES
The Intellectual Life
Half the trouble in the world arises because you can't stop people from thinking, and the other half because you can't start them.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.
ECKHART TOLLE
The Power of Now
Not out of right practice comes right thinking, but out of right thinking comes right practice. It matters enormously what you think. If you think falsely, you will act mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your thinking.
ANNIE BESANT
Daily Meditations on the Path and Its Qualifications
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
HORACE WALPOLE
The Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Cosmography
In martial arts, as in life, you quickly learn not to think too much. You have to do. While you're thinking, you open spaces where an opponent can successfully strike at you. The more you think, the more vulnerable you become.
JOSEPH CARDILLO
Be Like Water
Thinking may be said to be the living principle of wisdom.
DEGERANDO
attributed, Day's Collacon
All practical men try to bring the world under their hands; all thinkers, under their heads.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Many a man who thinks he is thinking, is merely digesting yesterday's newspaper.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
I figure if you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by.
DAVID BALDACCI
Split Second
Better to think wrongly with your own head, than to think rightly with the head of another.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.
FERNANDO PESSOA
The Book of Disquiet
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
OSCAR WILDE
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
If I could think how these my thoughts to leave,
Or thinking still, my thoughts might have good end:
If rebel sense would reason's law receive;
Or reason foil'd would not in vain contend:
Then might I think what thoughts were best to think:
Then might I wisely swim, or gladly sink.
PHILIP SIDNEY
sonnet
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
BIBLE
Proverbs 23:7
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
JOHN LOCKE
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding