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"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." Thomas Edison 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." Oliver Wendell Holmes 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do." Bertrand Russell 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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. 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I think; therefore I am." Rene Descartes 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Nothing pains some people more than having to think." Martin Luther King Jr. 4.615384615384615 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart." Sigmund Freud 4.6 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Great spirits have always encountered violent oppostion from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein 4.6 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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." Oliver Wendell Holmes 4.555555555555555 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"So convienent a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." Benjamin Franklin 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this 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." Thomas Paine 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them." Nachman of Bratslav 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it." Henry Ford 4.45 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"What makes us men is that we can think logically. What makes us human is that we sometimes choose not to." Roger Ebert 4.428571428571429 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say." C.S. Lewis 4.428571428571429 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." Confucius 4.416666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4.333333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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." Rene Descartes 4.333333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Think, every day, something no one else is thinking." Christopher Morley 4.2 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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