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Novalis:Prayer is to religion what thinking is


Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
by Novalis


William Shakespeare:There is nothing either good


There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
by William Shakespeare


Mason Cooley:Our most important decisions are


Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.
by Mason Cooley


Ralph Waldo Emerson:A sect or party is an


A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
by Ralph Waldo Emerson


Lao-Tzu:Kindness in words creates confidence.


Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
by Lao-Tzu


Sivananda:Meditation is the dissolution of


Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
by Sivananda


Albert von Nagyrapolt:Discovery consists in


Discovery consists in seeing whateveryone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
by Albert von Nagyrapolt


Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade:My manner of


My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so.
by Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade


Thomas Paine:There are two distinct classes of


There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
by Thomas Paine


Isaac Asimov:It is change, continuing change,


It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
by Isaac Asimov


Mary Pipher:Maturity involves being honest and


Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one’s decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one’s own true gifts. It involves thinking about one’s environment and deciding what one will and won’t accept.
by Mary Pipher


Henry Ford:None of our men are "experts." We


None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the "expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible.
by Henry Ford


Albert Pike:The Universe, which is the uttered


The Universe, which is the uttered Word of God, is infinite in extent. There is no empty space beyond creation on any side. The Universe, which is the Thought of God pronounced,never was not, since God never was inert; nor was, without thinking and creating. The forms of creation change, the suns and worlds live and die like the leaves and the insects, but the Universe itself is infinite and eternal, because God Is, Was, and Will forever Be, and never did not think and create.
by Albert Pike


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