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May you find great value in these quotes by Walter Lippmann.
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
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What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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.
- Dale Carnegie
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
What we think, we become.
- The Buddha
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If the mind wants to comprehend reality,
it will have to come out of the past and the future.
But coming out of the past and the future,
it is no longer the mind at all.
Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world
that the door to reality is no-mind.
- Osho
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
I think therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes
It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now.
Peace is a choice,
and it has nothing to do with
what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Think for yourself and question authority.
- Timothy Leary
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Benjamin Spock
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You are what you think you are.
- Bob Richards
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
Happiness is when
what you think,
what you say,
and what you do
are in harmony.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
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