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How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
According to the Jain view soul is that element which knows thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge feeling thinking and willing are conditioned on something and that that something must be as real as anything can be.
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that because useful knowledge should be remembered any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges not to create conflicts.
You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you what exists on the land and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application as we do on acquiring facts.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
A man of knowledge lives by acting not by thinking about acting.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants crowded together around the Hill blackening the ground that you begin to see the whole beast and now you observe it thinking planning calculating. It is an intelligence a kind of live computer with crawling bits for its wits.
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding indeed no fiction.
I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about imagination?
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality and instead of thinking how things may be to see them as they are.
If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.
Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
I remember thinking That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.
As a young actor people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking 'This is what I love doing and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever.'
To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking 'My ear looks weird from this angle why is the camera over there?'
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
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