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Quote DB :: Authors :: Laurence Peter :: View Quote View Quote "If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?" - Copy to Clipboard   --  Laurence Peter Listed in: Thinking Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 3.75  Rate Quote 8 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Laurence Peter "A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know." "Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame." "The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance." "An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it." "There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." 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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