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Thinking Quotes by Thomas Merton
- On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is…
- Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking.
- My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain…
- Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he…
- After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is,…
- Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and…
- The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some…
- In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your piece…
- Because You have called me here not to wear a label by which I can recognize myself and place myself in some kind of a…
- Stop thinking and start looking.
- We are already ONE. We just think we are separate.
- Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.
- How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?
- May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.
- In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good…
- Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
- If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but…
- A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
- Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal…
- The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be…
- Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If…
- I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a…
- Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific…
- How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which…
- A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man…
More Thinking Quotes
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- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
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- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I don't think I have a signature. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
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- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams