Hermann Hesse Quotes

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.

The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.

I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous and useful and people who are thirty-five who are in lousy physical shape and can't think straight. I don't think age has that much to do with it.

Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can't reach otherwise.It forces you to think. It forces you to work the thing through. Nothing comes to us out of the blue, very easily.

Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim.

Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.

It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.

Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity. Without that kind of capacity, it's extremely difficult to manage a high level of performance because you're going to get a lot of extraneous material chipping away at the finery of your thinking or the finery of your motor execution.

It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

People think meditation is a huge undertaking.

The choice--the dedication to one's highest potential--is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four.

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.