Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
There are thoughts we must not think.
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
Just because someone or something thinks differently than you do, it doesn't mean that it's not thinking.
Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
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