Quotes on thinking
Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
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George Savile Quotes
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.
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Stanislaw Lec Quotes
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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G.C. Lichtenberg Quotes
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
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Voltaire Quotes
Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.
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Steve Allen Quotes
Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory.
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G. Behn Quotes
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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Carl G. Jung Quotes
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor
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Victor Hugo Quotes
Sometimes I think and other times I am.
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Paul Valéry Quotes
Our job is not to make up anybody's mind, but to open minds and to make the agony of the decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
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Howard Mumford Jones Quotes
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
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John Locke Quotes
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
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Terry Josephson Quotes
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
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Alan Alda Quotes
Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
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Confucius Quotes
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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William Drummond Quotes
At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.
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William Lyon Phelps Quotes
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers.
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Bruce Calvert Quotes
We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.
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L'Estrange Quotes
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
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Havelock Ellis Quotes
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
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John F. Kennedy Quotes
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
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Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.
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Walter Anderson Quotes
Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I started thinking about a lot of things. I was able to - I can't remember what it was. Oh, the inaugural speech, started thinking through that.
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George W. Bush Quotes
Thinking is what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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William James Quotes
Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes