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Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
– Wendell Berry

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  1. Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone. – Wendell Berry
  2. The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling. – Wendell Berry
  3. The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. – Wendell Berry
  4. Eating is an agricultural act. – Wendell Berry
  5. The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. – Wendell Berry
  6. The significance – and ultimately the quality – of the work we do is determined by our understanding of the story in which we are taking part. – Wendell Berry
  7. There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love. – Wendell Berry
  8. People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us. – Wendell Berry
  9. He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat. – Wendell Berry
  10. She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry. – Wendell Berry
  11. Novelty is a new kind of loneliness. – Wendell Berry
  12. Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world. – Wendell Berry
  13. Oh Lord, make us ableTo eat all that’s on this table,And if there’s some we haven’t gotBring it to us while it’s hot – Wendell Berry
  14. And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable. – Wendell Berry
  15. And his words fell upon the table like a blessing. – Wendell Berry
  16. The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character. – Wendell Berry
  17. There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot. – Wendell Berry
  18. Industrial medicine is as little interested in ecological health as is industrial agriculture. (Health Is Membership, pg. 98) – Wendell Berry
  19. …a book, a real book, language incarnate, becomes a part of one’s bodily life. – Wendell Berry
  20. Respect, I think, always implies imagination – the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. – Wendell Berry
  21. The Earth is what we all have in common. – Wendell Berry
  22. Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me. – Wendell Berry
  23. You must find your own gift, the activity you are fond of and the activity you were created for – Sunday Adelaja
  24. Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other. – Kim John Payne
  25. Activity never equaled productivity. Inspect every activity to ensure you are producing right. – Bidemi MarkMordi
  26. Positive thinking is better than negative thinking and… No thinking is far better then positive thinking – Ed Strachar
  27. Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity. – Chris Matakas
  28. You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it. – Laurie Viera Rigler
  29. Good, don’t think. Thinking is highly overrated. – Mary Jane Auch
  30. Before sex, a man isn’t thinking clearly and a woman is thinking clearly. After sex, it reverses. The man is thinking clearly and a woman isn’t. – Sherry Argov
  31. Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world – and unless we touch others, we’re out of touch with life. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  32. Human affinity to human weakness surpasses human affinity to human strength – Prabhukrishna M
  33. A human is just a human, but a human together with God is a super-human – Sunday Adelaja
  34. Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. – Michael Crichton
  35. Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information it is a creative human activity. – Stephen Jay Gould
  36. Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. – Lionel Trilling
  37. All human activity is prompted by desire. – Bertrand Russell
  38. Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community. – Jean Vanier
  39. The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at the same time. – Richard Rohr
  40. Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective. – Pearl Zhu

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