Quote Category: Thinking

All of our progress unfolds like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then the opinion, then knowledge. As the plant has root, bud, and fruit, trust the instant instinct to the end that you can render no reason.

How you can develop your intuitive powers: like any other form of thinking, intuition requires alertness, sensitivity, and discipline of mind, which have to be cultivated. Intuition isn’t the enemy, but the ally of reason.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.