Browsing Quotes With Tag: thought (14)
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It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.
Speaker: L. Frank BaumPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most people would rather die than think; many do.
Speaker: Bertrand RussellPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is very seldom that in debate any one of two evenly matched antagonists will succeed in actually convincing or converting the other. But it is equally seldom that, in a properly conducted argument, either antagonist will end up holding exactly the same position as that with which he began. Concessions, refinements, and adjustments will occur and each initial position will have undergone modification, even if it remains ostensibly the same.
Speaker: Christopher HitchensSource: Letters to a Young ContrarianPosted: 12 Jan 2014 at 3:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil
Speaker: Exodus 23:2Source: Letters to a Young ContrarianPosted: 12 Jan 2014 at 3:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks but in how it thinks.
Speaker: Christopher HitchensSource: Letters to a Young ContrarianPosted: 12 Jan 2014 at 3:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
Speaker: Arthur P. StanleyPosted: 19 Apr 2011 at 10:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Speaker: Marcus AureliusPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
Speaker: James AllenPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 12:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In the armory of thought [man] forges the weapons by which he destroys himself.
Speaker: James AllenPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 12:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 10:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Speaker: Bernard BaruchPosted: 21 Dec 2007 at 6:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A reflection on a pool of water does not reveal its depth.
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 21 Nov 2007 at 7:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!