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Thinking thoughts

We don’t think in words, we think in pictograms and symbols.
That’s why we sometimes forget the word for an idea that we want to express.
Sometimes we don’t even have words for the thing we want to express.

Quotes

Your mind is a garden. ☀️
Your thoughts are the seeds.
You can grow flowers, or you can grow weeds.
flowers 🌼 and weeds 🌱

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it ⭐
– Aristotle

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
– Plato

If you think you can do a thing, or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
– Henry Ford

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
– Henri Bergson (1859-1941); French philosopher

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.
– Gautama Buddha

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
– Marcus Aurelius

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
– Napoleon Hill

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
– George Orwell

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.
– Harlan Ellison

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
– Walter Savage Landor

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
– Alan Watts

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
– Albert Einstein

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
– Benjamin Franklin

It doesn’t take time to think right. It only takes the willingness to do so.
– Kenneth G. Mills

I do this real moron thing, and it’s called thinking. And apparently I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.
– George Carlin

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
– C. S. Lewis

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.
– Banksy, Wall and Piece

Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that… and I think I am fine.
– Baroness Margaret Thatcher

The thought “I’m having thoughts” may be the most important thought you have ever thought, because before you had that thought, you may not have even known you were having thoughts. You probably thought you were your thoughts.
– David Simon

The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.
– Søren Kierkegaard

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it, usually does not know what he thinks.
– Mortimer Adler

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
– Warren Ellis

Dictionary

Links

Descartes and the discovery of the mind-body problem

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/descartes-and-the-discovery-of-the-mind-body-problem
The French philosopher René Descartes is often credited with discovering the mind-body problem, a mystery that haunts philosophers to this day. The reality is more complicated than that.