The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in
I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree
The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it.
Our minds are lazier than our bodies
Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest
Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory.
It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. ~
Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself.
We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.
Our job is not to make up anybody's mind, but to open minds and to make the agony of the decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking
Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry
Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking
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