“We become what we think. Think wisely!”

—  Ralph Smart

Last update Sept. 22, 2019. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "We become what we think. Think wisely!" by Ralph Smart?

Related quotes

Gautama Buddha photo

“What we think, we become.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
Nicholas Carr photo

“We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)”

Nicholas Carr (1959) American writer

Source: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi photo

“The fact that seems to underlie this exhortation is that we become what we think about.”

Frank Crane (1861–1928) American Presbyterian minister

Everyday Wisdom (1927)

Brené Brown photo
David Lynch photo

“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

McKenna interview (1992)
Context: I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow — you haven't got a handle on the rules when you're a child. We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination.

Huangbo Xiyun photo

“The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.”

Huangbo Xiyun Chinese Zen Buddhist

As quoted in Visions from Earth (2004) by James R. Miller, p. 17

Gautama Buddha photo

“We are always obliged to think about the larger system. If we fail to do this, then our thinking becomes fallacious.”

C. West Churchman (1913–2004) American philosopher and systems scientist

Source: 1960s - 1970s, The Systems Approach (1968), p. 27

Related topics