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Sometimes too much thinking leads to the Death of Doing
Doubt manifests itself in indecision.
Thinking too much leads to paralysis by analysis. It's important to think things through, but many use thinking as a means of avoiding action.
The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance.
Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
Thinking is action ... but there is nothing on this earth as powerful as consistent, bold, physical action.
Thinking there is something better out there in the world, something worth more than you already have- of all my mistakes,that was my biggest.
To think critically, it is first maturing and distancing a bit from self, no matter what level one lives on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Thought is an amazing thing: it can be a mirror, a lens, a bridge, a wall, a window, a ladder or a house. There is nothing in the world that has the cutting edge of a new thought.
If you are thinking without knowing you are thinking, you are confused about who and what you are.
"Thinking" is not something we talk about.
But anyone who only expects thinking to give assurances, and awaits the day when we can go beyond it as unnecessary, is demanding that thought annihilate itself.
Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think
In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.
Overthinking is often a product of underdoing.
No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.
Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by the civilized man.
It is throwing your life away to think of the wrong things.
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.
the pursuit of experience is the refuge of the unimaginative.
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!
You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.
How much time is wasted in what is called thought, but is merely care--an anxious idling over the fancied probabilities of result
Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.
Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.
Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.
Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
Thought always deceives us, when it becomes a substitute for action.
Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It's an epidemic.
To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.
It may, after all, be alright to do something scary without thinking, but not when the scariness is the not thinking itself.
The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.
Action and contemplation are ...
No thought,no reflection,no analysis,no cultivation,no intention;let it settle itself.Relax "Tilopa
Thinking is an action,
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
One wandering thought pollutes the day;
The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
Can one n/ever not think? ... Meditation the Art of Non-Thinking
Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
The world so clamors for action that men and women devote little time to thinking. Many believe in secondhand thinking. They find it easier to ascertain and adopt the thoughts of others than to think for themselves.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
Knowing that what's in your head might not be right - but not having any idea how to fix it.
Thinking is my fighting.
If a thinker throws off too many unsystematic and rich insights, there is no place to grab onto his thought. The thing he is trying to illuminate seems as elusive as before.
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.
The pursuit of the impossible through the useless.
Thinking isn't just an activity; it manifests as a state of being.
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself
Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
When we expand our thinking, we expand who we are as human beings: the perspective from which we view the world, and the concepts and values we use to guide our choices.
The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.
Thought precedes actions.
When you think about something you give it an importance it doesn't have.
The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself.
We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.
puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in. We
Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.
Like climbing a cliff, thinking is a perilous activity for those unused to it.
He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Pondering, which means to weigh mentally, to deliberate, to meditate, can achieve the opening of the spiritual eyes of one's understanding.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Think not-thinking. How do you think not-thinking? Nonthinking. This is the essential art of zazen.
Sometimes thinking gets in the way of doing.
I can not think for others or without others,nor can others think for me. Even if the people's thinking is superstitious or naive,it is only as they rethink their assumptions in action that they can change. Producing and acting upon their own ideas - not consuming those of others.
There are things you think you won't be able to do, that need the actual to become possible. There are things that only become thinkable once you're already doing them.
Thinking must never submit itself, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea, nor to whatever it may be, if not to facts themselves, because, for it, to submit would be to cease to be.
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.
The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have
done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we have created them ... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive.
Sometimes an unimaginative mind can imagine the most unimaginable
Every thought is an afterthought.
A thought is of a much higher value than an action.
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking.
Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.
If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved
How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
To think is to have doubt ... yet even thinking will bring you to "no thought" ... eventually.
What are you doing?"
"Thinking."
"That sounds dangerous.
Thinking cannot think now into being present.
Thinking is not a thing that can undo itself. It can never be its own solution.
Rethink Your Mindset because ... The view your brain builds and automatically adopts ... of yourself, profoundly affects the way you think, feel and act-moment to moment, and the results you create.
The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored.
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.
We must uncenter our minds from ourselves; We must unhmanize our views a little, and become confident As the rock and ocean that we were made from.