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James Allen
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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
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| "A moment"s thinking is an hour in words." | |
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Thomas Hood
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| "A penny for your thoughts." | |
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Jonathan Swift
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| "All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded
on our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness
follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him." | |
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Guatama Buddha
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| "All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato." | |
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George Santiano
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| "Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to,
though not a replacement for, critical thinking." | |
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Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout
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| "Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the
side of which more will be laid." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power
from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and
sterilize you." | |
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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| "Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and
no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past
him." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| "Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in
peril." | |
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John Dewey
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| "Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years
of human thought too late." | |
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Jean de La Bruyére
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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 or twice a week" | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn"t be so bad if they
thought." | |
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Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
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| "Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your
ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the
label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity." | |
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Thomas J. Watson
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| "For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must
govern those that toil." | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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| "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are
my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." | |
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The Bible
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| "Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without
freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt." | |
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Bergen Evans
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| "Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts." | |
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William Hazlitt
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| "How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another"s will;
Whose Armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost
skill." | |
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Sir Henry Wotton
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| "I think; therefore I am." | |
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René Descartes
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| "I write entirely to find out what I"m thinking, what I"m looking at,
what I see and what it means." | |
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Joan Didion
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| "If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must
think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth and ashes to think. Nor
should our minds work like a sundial which records only sunshine. Our
thinking must square against some lessons of history, some principles of
government and morals, if we would preserve the rights and dignity of men
to which this nation is dedicated." | |
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Herbert Clark Hoover
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| "If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn"t thinking." | |
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George S. Patton
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| "If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn?t thinking." | |
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General George Smith Patton, Jr.
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| "If everybody"s thinking alike, somebody isn"t thinking." | |
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Proverb
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| "If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it
more thought." | |
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Dennis Roch
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| "If you make people think they"re thinking, they"ll love you; but if
you really make them think, they"ll hate you." | |
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Don Marquis
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| "If you realize that you aren"t as wise today as you thought you were
yesterday, you"re wiser today." | |
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Unknown
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| "It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally
in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at
least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while." | |
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Luther Burbank
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| "It isn?t what people think that?s important, but the reason they
think what they think." | |
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Eugene Ionesco
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| "It?s not only who you know but what you know about who you know that
counts." | |
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Mrs. C. Lowe
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| "KLEPTOMANIAC, n. A rich thief." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and
his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought." | |
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Blaise Pascal
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| "Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel.... not
simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable
and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?"" | |
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Robert Penn Warren
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| "Nimble thought can jump both sea and land." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "No brain is stronger than its weakest think." | |
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Thomas L. Masson
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| "No chain is stronger than its weakest link." | |
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Spalding
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| "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for
words are slippery and thought is viscous." | |
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Henry B. Adams
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| "No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "One thought fills immensity." | |
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William Blake
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| "Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life
endurable." | |
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John Patrick
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| "People who don"t Think probably don"t have Brains; rather, they have
grey fluff that"s blown into their heads by mistake." | |
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Alan Alexander Milne
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| "Remember happiness doesn"t depend upon who you are or what you have;
it depends solely on what you think." | |
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Dale Carnegie
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| "Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought." | |
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Robert Browning
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| "The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some
vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of
the community--these are the most vital things that education must try to
produce." | |
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Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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| "The ancestor of every action is a thought." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a
way that will allow a solution." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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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, and therefore
should be secured, because they seldom return again." | |
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John Locke
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| "The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or
fears or wishes rather than with their minds." | |
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Will Durant
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| "The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous, he is free from
anxieties; Wise, he is free from perplexities; Bold, he is free from
fear." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "Them"s my sentiments!" | |
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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| "There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is
dangerous." | |
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Hannah Arendt
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| "There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those
that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and
those that bolt into the mind of their own Accord." | |
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Thomas Paine
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| "There are two ways to slide easily through life: namely, to believe
everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from
thinking." | |
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Alfred Korzybski
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| "There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe
everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." | |
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Theodore Rubin
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| "Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for
himself." | |
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Josiah Royce
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| "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why so few
engage in it." | |
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Henry Ford
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| "Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself." | |
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Plato
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| "Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is
everything." | |
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Jules Henri Poincaré
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| "Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in
any high or real sense." | |
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Amos Bronson Alcott
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| "Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom." | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "Thoughts come through people, not from them." | |
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| "Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen"d to the
sun." | |
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Edward Young
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| "To think is to live. ? Vivere est cogitare." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "To think is to say no." | |
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Émile Auguste Chartier
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| "To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its
undoing." | |
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Eva Young
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| "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public
office." | |
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Aesop
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| "What a difference there is between what we say and what we
think." | |
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Racine
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| "What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he
can for the goods he sells?" | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "What was once thought can never be unthought." | |
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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| "Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts
on the unthinking." | |
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John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton
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| "You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many
words." | |
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Frank A. Clark
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| "You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking
about something." | |
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Seymour Papert
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