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Quotes about Thinking

    “The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.” ~ Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala

      “The grass is always greener where you water it.” ~ Unknown

        “Obsessive thinking can do far more harm than good and never actually causes any change. Once you start feeling more present, you’ll take less joy in feeding the mental drama around the situation and naturally be less willing to put up with negativity it brings.”

        Chantal Houde, Tiny Buddha

           “If you understand something in only one way, then you don’t really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we’ve connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that’s what we mean by thinking!” ~ Scott Young, Zen Habits

            “Your life is what your thoughts make it.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

              Instead of thinking outside the box, get ride of the box.

                “We live in the world we are thinking of.” ~ Ralph Smart, Infinite Waters

                  “There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.” ~ Henry Ford

                    “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.” ~ Henry Ford

                      I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think." ~ Socrates

                        “The world we have created is a product of our way of thinking.” ~ Albert Einstein

                          "The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."

                            "The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves that he has no brains of his own." ~ Charles Spurgeon

                              “The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.  And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.” ~ R.D. Laing

                                “If you don’t think too good, then don’t think too much.” ~ Ted Williams