329 quotes found
“As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.- (1772-1834)”
“i go deeper into my head”
“Where there is little thinking, there is big shaping of the people! ~”
“To be perfectly honest, I enjoy thinking dangerously”
“Thinking is like a fountain. Once it gets going at a certain pressure, well, it almost impossible to turn it off. And, my hat! what odd things come up with the water!("Out Of The Deep")”
“The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness.”
“A lot of what people did and said when they "predicted" things, Morey now realized, was phony: pretending to know things rather than actually knowing things. There were a great many interesting que...”
“Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it.”
“People keep on saying, "Don't Think Much." Is it underrated? You can't be creative enough unless you make a thoughtful process by collaborating your conscience and consciousness”
“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?.... In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking not needing to think. Or...”
“mind was simply the operation of the brain, an idea that struck me with force; it startled my naive understanding of the world”
“I can only meditate when I am walking, when I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.”
“every thought that deviates from the officially prescribed and permanently changing line is already suspect, no matter in which field of human activity it occurs. Simply because of their capacity t...”
“I wish i could feed my soul just like i feed my hunger.”
“If you wanted to know what a man was thinking, check the view from his favorite spot.”
“But anyone who only expects thinking to give assurances, and awaits the day when we can go beyond it as unnecessary, is demanding that thought annihilate itself.”
“Our mental blocks are more formidable than the physical ones. Bob Marley said it when he asked us to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery. You first think what you become. The physical starts f...”
“You cannot solve a level four problem with level one thinking.”
“Thinking about something is the surest way to miss out on the beauty of that actual something.”
“Have you ever noticed the more you try not to think, the more elaborate your thinking episodes get?”