We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.
What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think ''I can't.''
What was once thought can never be unthought.
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.
When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.
When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
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