A Quote by Epictetus

As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.

Epictetus

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Epictetus
Greek - Philosopher
50 - 138

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.

Cullen Hightower

The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.

Mark Nepo

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

Jack Kerouac

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

Jonathan Safran Foer

What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

Warren Buffett

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

George Bernard Shaw

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions

Daniel Kahneman

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.

James Nathan Miller

Faith is not jumping to conclusions. It is concluding to jump.

W. T. Purkiser

my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.

J. A. Jance

I just think we shouldn't judge her, or anyone, without tryo g to understand them first. That maybe we should get the full story before jumping to conclusions. Crazy notion, I know.

Marissa Meyer

The government doesn't want us to know what they're doing, how they're interpreting the law, how they're interpreting and redefining their powers, and increasingly, how they're redefining the boundaries of our rights and our liberties, broadly, socially, and categorically without our involvement.

Edward Snowden

Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.

Harold Acton

Based on this one experience I had, jumping to conclusions is always really stupid.

Craig Benzine

Being a busy woman and busy mom, we can tend to neglect ourselves and push our thoughts to the back of our brains to deal with later. By taking care of yourself, you become mentally and physically healthier and show up happier for those around you.