Thinking Quotes - Page 42

I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla.

Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones-all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it for a snake. When we think that the rope is a snake, we are scared, but once we see that we are looking at a rope, our fear dissipates. We have been deluded by our thoughts. Likewise, mentally fabricating self and others, we generate attachment and aversion.

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

I think if Jesus had one shot at fixing us, He’d tell us how much He loves us. Jesus loves us right now, just as we are. He isn’t standing aloof, yelling at us to climb out of our pits and clean ourselves up so we can be worthy of Him. He is wading waist-deep into the muck of life, weeping with the broken, rescuing the lost, and healing the sick.

People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must also have the courage of your convictions. If you think your move is good, make it.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

I think denim is something everyone feels comfortable in. It's kind of my uniform, really.

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent, Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself - And there isn’t one.

It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is true that we are part of a community, then leadership is everyone's vocation, and it can be an evasion to insist that it is not. When we live in the close-knit ecosystem called community, everyone follows and everyone leads.

We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.

I'm constantly thinking.

Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.

I think as a person, I have a whole bunch of different sides to me.

No matter what anybody says, what matters most is what you think of yourself.