“Thinking is good, but excessive thinking is not.”
Thought at Sunrise (2007)
Context: Thinking is good, but excessive thinking is not. Between thoughts if there is a period of thoughtlessness, thoughts will be fresh and pathbreaking. A thinker will be able to cultivate a strain of healthy thoughts only when he pays attention to thoughtlessness also.
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Mahāprajña 7
Acharya or the Svetambar Terapanth sect of Jainism 1920–2010Related quotes
“Good thinking,” the tall man agreed. “In this case it’s not true, but it is good thinking.”
Source: Tomorrow Knight (1976), Chapter 6 (p. 57)
“I think a good book is a good book forever.
I don't think they get less good because times change.”
Jimmy Carter
“If you don't think too good, don't think too much.”
As quoted in The Gigantic Book of Baseball Quotations (2007) edited by Wayne Stewart, p. 360
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Compensation
Context: Every excess causes a defect; every defect an excess. Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good. Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse. It is to answer for its moderation with its life. For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly. For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something. If riches increase, they are increased that use them. If the gatherer gathers too much, nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.
Asked about his team's "execution" in a loss.
McKay knew how to win, crack wise http://www.superbowl.com/insider/story/6101081
“The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.”
Essay (12 August 1795)