Top 1200 Enlightenment Thinkers Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.

True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers.

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

We wouldn't be successful if we didn't have independent thinkers who can argue and then resolve their arguments.

I've participated at summits where I was the only chef. I was surrounded with thinkers and writers and innovators.

I don't want to be an athlete so much. I groove more with artists and deep thinkers.

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.

It's a great honor to be selected as one of 'Foreign Policy''s Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.

Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

The sexiest people are thinkers.

The time for thinkers has come.

You can have a team of unconventional thinkers, as well as conventional thinkers. If you don't have the support of others you cannot achieve anything altogether on your own. It's like a cry in the wilderness. In each instance there were others who could see the same thing, and there were others who could not. It's an obvious difference we see in those who you might say have a bird's eye view, and those who have a worm's eye view. I've come to realize that we all have a different mind set, we all see things differently, and that's what the human condition is really all about.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a state of repose... Like a projectile flying to its goal, life ends in death. Even its ascent and its zenith are only steps and means to this goal... For, enlightenment or no enlightenment, consciousness or no consciousness, nature prepares itself for death.

How much of what the biblical writers believed about the supernatural world do I believe? They weren't us. We are products of the Enlightenment; they were not. So let's stop denying that reality. Rather than sitting in judgment on them from our Enlightenment perches, we ought to have them sit in judgment on us when it comes to informing us about the supernatural world. After all, what they wrote was ultimately overseen by God.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.

You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a state of effortlessness. It is a state of no-action. It is a state of tremendous passivity, receptivity. You are not doing anything, you are not thinking anything, you are not planning for anything, you are not doing yoga exercises, and you are not doing any technique, any method - you are simply existing, just existing. And in that very moment... the sudden realization that all is as it should be. That`s what enlightenment is!

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

I miss being exposed to the leading thinkers of the world.

To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

When? At this time, while you have all the opportunities, if you do not do your best to achieve the pure, stainless path to enlightenment when will you do it? If you don't meditate, don't practise the graduated path to enlightenment, especially bodhicitta, in this life, then when? When will you practise? When will you have this realization? If, in this life, you don't achieve renunciation, bodhicitta and sunyata, as well as the two stages of tantra, when will you? When will you have these attainments? When will you become enlightened? When will you perform perfect work for sentient beings?

Thinkers, makers and traders are the DNA of the world class company

It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.

Authenticity is fundamental, more fundamental than spiritual enlightenment. Without authenticity, no genuine spiritual enlightenment is possible. Authenticity is the state of being committed to truth. Truth is simple. And no matter how simply a truth is stated, only those who have walked the path of understanding and evolution on their own can know and understand it authentically. The path of truth is the path least traveled. Authenticity is the clarity of being in which there is no self-deceit.

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.

At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.

Thinkers perish, thoughts don't.

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered.

Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

[Our system of education ]not designed to create critical thinkers.

Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by Shunryu Suzuki, the author who wrote Zen Mind, Beginners Mind. He doesn't mention sanity at all but I think that one possible definition of enlightenment would be a kind of profound sanity, where being insane is no longer an option.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Politicians cannot create jobs or wealth. Such is axiomatic to straight thinkers.

Even in a hierarchy people can be equal as thinkers.

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.