25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living Quotes

“Intellectual empathy requires us to think within the viewpoints of others, especially those we think are wrong.”
― Richard W. Paul, 25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life

“SELFISHNESS IS THAT DETESTABLE VICE WHICH NO ONE WILL FORGIVE IN OTHERS, AND NO ONE IS WITHOUT IN HIMSELF." —H.W. BEECHER”
― Linda Elder, 25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life

“Everything we know, believe, want, fear, and hope for, our thinking tells us. It follows, then, that the quality of our thinking is the primary determinant of the quality of our lives.”
― Richard W. Paul, 25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life

“HOW DO YOU KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT EVERYTHING?' WAS ASKED OF A VERY WISE AND INTELLIGENT MAN; AND THE ANSWER WAS, 'BY NEVER BEING AFRAID OR ASHAMED TO ASK QUESTIONS AS TO ANYTHING OF WHICH I WAS IGNORANT.'" —J. ABBOTT”
― Linda Elder, 25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life

“IF WE ARE TO SOLVE A PROBLEM, WE MUST PURSUE IT WITH ALL OUR INTELLECTUAL PROWESS, IDENTIFYING EXACTLY THAT WHICH HELPS US SOLVE IT, AND WEEDING OUT THAT WHICH GETS IN THE WAY." —ANONYMOUS”
― Linda Elder, 25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life

“Be careful to neither agree nor disagree with what anyone says until you (clearly) understand what he or she is saying.”
― Linda Elder, 25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life

“Your thinking goes wrong when you aren't clear about your purpose, have unrealistic purposes, have contradictory purposes, or don't stick to your expressed purpose.”
― Linda Elder, 25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life

“By facing your own hypocrisy, you begin to grow beyond it (while recognizing that you can never get full command of your hypocrisy because you can never get full command of your egocentricity). When you recognize it in others (especially those of status), they are less able to manipulate you.”
― Linda Elder, 25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life

“People with intellectual humility (and they are rare) understand that there is far more that they will never know than they will ever know. They continually seek to learn more, to develop their intellectual abilities and expand their knowledge base, always with a healthy awareness of the limits of their knowledge.”
― Linda Elder, 25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life

“Those who think differently from us sometimes possess truths we have not yet discovered.”
― Linda Elder, 25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life