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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

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Author:Aristotle

“The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.”

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Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”

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Author:R. D. Laing

“I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.”

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.”

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Book:Emile

Source: Emile

“Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and make them absolute. It is egotism that makes us identify with one opinion rather than another, become quarrelsome and unkind, say *this* could not mean *that*, and think we have a duty to change others to suit ourselves.”

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Author:Karen Armstrong

“We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of the human race. We must put down the temptation to powerlessness and surrender to the questions of the moment.”

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Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.”

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Author:Aristotle

“We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.”

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Book:Pensees

Source: Pensees

“We think by feeling. What is there to know?”

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Book:On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose

Source: On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose

“Bohr’s standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does not consist only of physics, and life does not consist only of science. The aim of atomic research is to fit our empirical knowledge concerning it into our other thinking. All of this other thinking, so far as it concerns the outer world, is active in space and time. If it cannot be fitted into space and time, then it fails in its whole aim and one does not know what purpose it really serves.”

“We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.”

Source: Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

“[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.”

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Author:Stephen Hawking

“Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.”

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Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.”

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Author:Mongkut

“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.”

“There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.”

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Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.”

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Author:Sting

“A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.”

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Book:The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”

“Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.”

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Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.”

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Author:Li Ka-shing

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

Source: The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

“Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.”

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Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”

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Book:Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

“Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.”

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Author:Benjamin Spock

“It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.”

Source: Works

“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”

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Author:David Bohm

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

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Author:Derek Bok

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

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Author:Edith Wharton

“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”

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Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.”

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Author:Sri Aurobindo

“Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.”

“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”

Source: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

“I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.”

“I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.”

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Author:Martin Buber

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”

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Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.”

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Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

“An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.”

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Author:Benjamin Carson

“People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt.”

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Author:Ayn Rand