Thinking quotes
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.
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Life Quotes
The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?
People are thinking they can enjoy something. NO. If you are joyful everything is a pleasant experience
The most beautiful moments in your life were moments when you were not thinking about anything. You were just living.
If you want to realize your life to the fullest, first and foremost is, you should never shrink yourself into thinking “This is mine and this is not mine.” If you expand within yourself to include the whole world, then everything is yours.
If you go on thinking about life, there will be no life left in you. The only way is to live it, to experience it, and to enhance your perception of life
I am no longer the wave of consciousness thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of Spirit that has become the wave of human life.
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Since you are a human, your imagination of God is a huge man, If you were a buffalo you would be really thinking God is a huge buffalo, may be four horns
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.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.
Intelligence is in being able to make people understand what they could not understand. Intelligence is not in confusing the hell out of what people knew perfectly well for ages, That's not intelligence
Every society needs individuals who go on planting mango trees without thinking whether they would get to eat the fruit or not
In meditation, try to go beyond thinking. As long as thoughts enter the mind, you are functioning on the conscious level.
Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently, I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.
Collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.
Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything.
Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.
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.
Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
A flower is not thinking of giving fragrance to you. A tree is not thinking of giving oxygen, The earthworm is not thinking of making the earth fertile, If they eat or if they shit they are doing good thing. Because they're just being themselves, they don't have to think of doing good things
None of your thoughts are really yours, Thought is something that you generate from implanted information, The way you think right now depends on the kind of family you were born in, parents you had, education, society, social background, religious background. These things are deciding how you think
If you are a very good man, please reduce that, good people can not feel anything, they become like goats, because they keep on thinking "I'm good, I'm good", How? "He is not okay, she is not okay, he is not okay, he is not okay, compared to them I'm such a good man"
You cannot think about it, you cannot talk about it because whatever you think and talk about is not spirituality.
When it comes to animal husbandry, we're thinking of breeding right, as human beings why are we not thinking of breeding right? Because we are too identified with our own body. “It's mine” is more important than what's right
Worrying means you go on thinking about the same nonsense, like a broken record. You come to that place and say the same things over and over
The way we think is the way we become. Whatever you hold as the highest, naturally all your energies get drawn towards that.
You are always thinking of life as a relationship... you don't have a relationship, you just have an existence, the relationship happened because of your needs
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.
To be ecstatic is not difficult. It is thinking that it is difficult that holds you apart from it. Never think of divine joy as distant from you, and it will be with you always.