Quotes on Mind Thinking

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

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