And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.
Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they said or did.
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.