• All the Buddha's teachings just had this single object – to carry us beyond the stage of thought. Now, if I accomplish cessation of my thinking.
  What use to me the Dharmas Buddha taught? Huang Po [Huangbo Xiyun] (770-850 AD) Chinese Chan master of Zen Budd-
  hism, The Zen Teaching of Huang-Po: On the Transmission of Mind, translated by John Eaton Calthorpe Blofeld, preface by P'ei
  Hsiu, Chinese scholar, S. 69 Grove Press, 18. January 1994

• Abstract thinking can lead us no further than to intellectual sophistries, which are invariably used as shields and subterfuges and are calculated to prevent the realization of the whole. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, Gerhard Adler, editor, Aniela Jaffe, editor, Letters of C. G. Jung. Volume II, 1951-1961, Princeton University Press, 1. April 1976, Routledge, pages 617-620, reissued edition 20. May 1976

• If you go to thinking, take your heart with you.
  If you go to love, take your head with you.
  Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love.
  Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, Sonu Shamdasani, Indian historian, editor, The Red Book [Liber Novus], 205-page illustrated manuscript, S. 253, S. 200, Philemon Series, The Philemon Foundation and W.W. Norton & Company, 9. October 2009

• The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. Francis Bacon Francis Bacon [William Shakespeare] (1561-1626) English philoso-
  pher, statesman, pioneer of the scientific method, lawyer, jurist, author, The Great Instauration [1620], S. 33, Simon and Schuster,
  2012; cited in: AZ Quotes

• Man's status in the natural world is determined by the quality of his thinking.
  Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990) Canadian-born mystic, occultist, 33rd degree Freemason, author, The Secret Teachings of All
  Ages. An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic & Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, originally published
  1928, version of the free Internet archive Sacred Texts, S. 5, Philosophical Research Society, revised edition June 1978

• The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.
  Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born US American theoretical physicist, developer of the theory of general relativity, Nobel Peace Prize laureate in physics, 1921, 1954

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• No one can cause emotions in you. Another person can trigger emotions in you. However, it is your way of thinking about what they should or must do or what one usually does, what is correct or right, which causes emotions of anger, pain or annoyance. Marshall Rosenberg (*1934) US American psychologist, psychotherapist, developer of Nonviolent Communication, source unknown

• Two percent of the people think;
  three percent of the people think they think;
  and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.
  George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish politician, pacifist, satirist, dramatist, Nobel laureate in literature, 1925, cited in: Matthew T. Mbu,
  Dignity in Service, S. 43, Safari Books, Ibadan, 2018

• Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new. ⚡ Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, social critic, logician, mathema-
  tician, historian, social reformist, "pacifist", member of the Royal Society and MI5, Nobel laureate in literature, 1950, Our Know-
  ledge of the External World, The Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago and London, 1914

• Narrative imagining – story, is the fundamental instrument of thought. Mark Turner (*1954) US American professor of cognitive science, Case Western Reserve University, linguist, author, The Literary Mind, Oxford University Press, New York City, United States, 1st edition 19. September 1996

• The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts but to discover new ways of |thinking about
  them. Sir William Henry Bragg (1862-1942) British physicist, chemist, mathematician, sportsman, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
  in physics, 1915, cited in: Anton Z Capri, Quips, Quotes And Quanta. An Anecdotal History Of Physics, S. 113, World Scientific Publishing, 2nd edition 2011

• Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
  Irving Good, US American editor, The Scientist Speculates. An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas, Basic Books, 21. January 1962; falsely attributed to Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893-1986) Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate in physiology or medicine, 1937

• There are two different kinds of doubt. There's self-doubt and idea doubt. Self-doubt is paralyzing. It leads you to freeze. But idea doubt is energizing. It motivates you to test, to experiment, to refine.
  ⚡ Adam Grant, Ph.D. (*1981) professor of organizational psychology, University of Pennsylvania, author, The surprising habits
  of original thinkers, presented by TED Talks 2016, minute 9:19, 15:34 minutes duration, filmed and posted February 2016

• IQ is a measure of one particular kind of reasoning, but that is hardly the only form of reasoning, and the evidence is overwhelming that the correlation between IQ and career success is essentially zero. What IQ correlates to is what profession you enter. Also, IQ as measured by standard tests has gone up over time too – the median IQ has increased. IQ is part of what it is to be smart, but it's only a small aspect of it. Look at the work of Daniel Goleman in emotional intelligence; look at the work of Howard Gardner
  at Harvard [University] and his [Theory of] multiple intelligences. I don't put much stake in IQ as a measure of human ability. Interview with Daniel Pink danpink.com (*1964) US American motivational speaker, chief speech writer of
  US vice president Al Gore (1995-1997), visionary author, The Changing Workplace, presented by the US American eJournal, February 2006, reprinted by IIP Digital usembassy 3. June 2008

Tundra near Dudinka at the Jenissej, Sibiria, 5. August 2000

• There is a seismic – though as yet undetected – shift now underway in much of the advanced world. We are moving from an economy and a society built on the logical, linear, computer-like capabilities of the Information Age to an economy and a society built on the inventive, empathic, big-picture capabilities of what's rising in its place, the Conceptual Age.
  The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind – computer program-
  mers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft con-
  tracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands.
  The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind – creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning-makers. These people – artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, bigpicture thinkers – will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys.
  Daniel Pink danpink.com (*1964) US American motivational speaker, chief speech writer of US vice president Al Gore (1995-
  1997), visionary author, A Whole New Mind. Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age, Riverhead/Penguin, 2005

• Women, on average, collect more bits of data, assemble that data into more com-
  plex patterns, and weigh more options as they make decisions. Women tend to see the big picture; they generalize and synthesize as they consider webs of factors – what I call "web thinking."
  Men, on the other hand, get to the point. Typically, they are more likely to focus on what they consider relevant, then ponder in a more linear progression: "step thinking."
  Both approaches have merit. Each has been traced, respectively, to the hormones estrogen and testosterone. And each evolved millions of years ago as women did more multitasking to rear the young, while men spent more time zeroing in on one thing at a time – often hunting game. Helen Fisher, Ph.D. (1945-2024) Canadian-American research pro-
  fessor of biological anthropology, human behavior researcher, Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University, expert
  on romantic love, chief scientific advisor to Chemistry.com, 8 Ways of Looking at Power. The Power of Web Thinking, presented by the US American monthly magazine O, The Oprah Magazine, September 2009

• We think so because other people all think so; or because – after all we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so. Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) English utilitarian philosopher, economist, cofounder and first president of the Society
  for Psychical Research, member of the Metaphysical Society, cited in: AZ Quotes

• Observation No. 11: An idea is a paradigm shifting moment that forward projects future potential in an initially ethereal but progressively tangible manner. John Hunt, US American radio commentator, author, The Art of the Idea. And How It Can Change Your Life, PowerHouse Books, 18. September 2009

• They (men) would sooner die than think. It is very curious that the universality of an opinion should have so much weight with people, as their own experience might tell them that its acceptance is an entirely thoughtless and merely imitative process. But it tells them nothing of the kind, because they possess no self-knowledge whatever.
  Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher, faculty member, author, How to Argue Logically. The Art of Controversy, Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1. January 1926

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• Before you speak THINK!
  T = is it true?
  h = is it helpful?
  i = is it inspiring?
  n = is it necessary?
  k = is it kind?

• What luck for rulers, that men do not think.
  ⚡ Adolf Hitler [Führer, Reichskanzler] (1889-1945) Austrian-German fascist leader of the Nazi Party during the Third Reich (1933-1945), cited in: Quotations. Attributed as accurately as possible by Gerald Jones, Ph.D., velutluna.info