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"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
"Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."
George Bernard Shaw
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."
Henry Ford
"A brain has to digest its food, too."
Jason Mechalek
"Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Reason is experimental intelligence, conceived after the pattern of science, and used in the creation of social arts; it has something to do. It liberates man from the bondage of the past, due to ignorance and accident hardened into custom. It projects a better future and assists man in its realization."
John Dewey
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
John Locke
"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"
Laurence Peter
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
Leonardo da Vinci
"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
Marcel Proust
"Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account."
Marcel Proust
"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up."
Mark Twain
"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them."
Nachman of Bratslav
"Thinking is more precious than all five senses."
Nachman of Bratslav
"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think."
Niels Bohr
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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