Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Some of the worst things in my life never happened.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.