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No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
Thomas L. Masson
A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politician, the historian, and the sociologist. Already there are countless people who would think it scandalous to falsify a scientific text-book, but would see nothing wrong in falsifying an historical fact.
George Orwell
Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
Chinese Proverb
The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.
Norman Vincent Peale
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
Octavio Paz
Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.
Ashvaghosha
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.
Oscar Wilde, The soul of man und
The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.
Gabriele Lusser Rico
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
Thomas Alva Edison
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
Bernard Baruch
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert H. Schuller
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Neils Bohr
One thought fills immensity.
William Blake
Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.
Thomas Secker
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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius
Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
Bertrand Russell
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
