Thinking proverbs

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◆ The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

- John Locke99

◆ I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

- Jonathan Safran Foer99

◆ We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.

- Santosh Kalwar99

◆ Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn't mean I'll always like it, or that I have to go on liking it at all points in time as an unthinking act of loyalty to who I am as a person, based solely on who I was as a person. To be loyal to myself is to allow myself to grow and change, and challenge who I am and what I think. The only thing I am for sure is unsure, and this means I'm growing, and not stagnant or shrinking.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

- Voltaire99

◆ The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

- Plutarch99

◆ With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

- Ray Bradbury99

◆ The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

- Horace Walpole99

◆ To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

- Susan Sontag99

◆ All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ Stop thinking, and end your problems.

- Lao Tzu99

◆ Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

- Jim Morrison99