Quotes on the Importance of Thinking

We are what we think.
All that we are arises 
With our thoughts. 
With our thoughts, 
We make our world. 
— Buddha

As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Proverbs 23:7

 We do not see things as they are, but as we are. 
— Talmud 

The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. 
—  William James

Men are not moved by things but by the view which they take of them.  
 —Epictetus 

 If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. 
 —Marcus Aurelius 

 Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous. 
— Peter Drucker

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

— Albert Einstein
 
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. 
— John Lubbock