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Direct your eye right inward, and you'll findA thousand regions in your mindYet undiscovered. Travel them, and beExpert in home-cosmography.quoted by Thoreau in Walden Conclusion
William Habbington, from To My H
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley
Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.
Sidney Madwed
The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
Amos Bronson Alcott
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
George Bernard Shaw
I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.
Emile Durkheim
An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.
C.S. Lewis
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Paul Ambroise Valery
Thought is the parent of the deed.
Thomas Carlyle
Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.
Lord Thomas Dewar
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
David Hume
For a long time, I have been trying to see if it would be possible to describe the history of thought as distinct both from the history of ideas (by which I mean the analysis of systems of representation) and from the history of mentalities (by which I mean the analysis of attitudes and types of action schTranslated by Lydia Davis and published in volume 1
Michel Foucault, Interview, May
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
John Dewey
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
Charles Mackay
Those that think must govern those that toil.
Oliver Goldsmith
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
Steve Martin
