Herman Melville Quotes

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

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

You cannot think when you're ecstatic.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

Fear is a normal human emotion. It is not in itself a killer. We can learn to be aware when fear grips us, and can train to operate through and in spite of our fear. If, on the other hand, we don't understand that fear is normal and has to be controlled and overcome, it will paralyze us and stop us in our tracks. We will no longer think clearly or analyze rationally. We prepare for it and control it; we never let it control us. It if does, we cannot lead.

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

Give your problem all the thought you possibly can before a solution is reached. But when the matter is settled and over with, worry not at all.

Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and filled with apprehension, we become panicky and are likely to see only gloom and failure. There isn't any situation so bad that it won't become a lot better when you think rationally - and spiritually - about it. God gives you the ability to think rationally about things by filling you with peace and faith.

To think is not enough, you must think of something.

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.

An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.

I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.

Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions

Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom...of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.

If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.

Clear thought makes clear speech.

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.

Something inside me clicked, like an engine shifting into higher gear. My thinking suddenly became faster and clearer. The anger and fear didn't go away, but I realized they weren't important. They weren't going to help me.

I've got so much in my brain and I want to change the way we think sometimes.