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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
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George Savile Quotes

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Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.
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Stanislaw Lec Quotes

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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
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Voltaire Quotes

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

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Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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Carl G. Jung Quotes

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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

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Sometimes I think and other times I am.
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Paul Valéry Quotes

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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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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

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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

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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

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No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
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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

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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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Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
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Confucius Quotes

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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

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At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.
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William Lyon Phelps Quotes

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Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers.
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Bruce Calvert Quotes

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We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

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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

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Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
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John F. Kennedy Quotes

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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

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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

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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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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

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Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

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