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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."
Thomas Paine
"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affrims, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and also imagines and senses."
Rene Descartes
"What once was thought can never be unthought."
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."
George Bernard Shaw
"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much."
Walter Lippman
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
John Locke
"Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account."
Marcel Proust
"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday and our present thoughts build our life tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind."
Siddhartha Buddha
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
Albert Einstein
"If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired."
George Patton
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think."
Niels Bohr
"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking."
George Patton
"I think; therefore I am."
Rene Descartes
"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."
Thomas Paine
"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
Marcel Proust
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
Albert Einstein
"The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
Albert Einstein
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