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Quote DB :: Authors :: Thomas Paine :: View Quote View Quote "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." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Thomas Paine Listed in: Thinking Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 5  Rate Quote 7 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Thomas Paine "'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." "Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us." "That government is best which governs least." "Time makes more converts than reason." Top 5 quotes from Thinking "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." "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." "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." "What once was thought can never be unthought." "The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."

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