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We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. -Buddha
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. -S. Weir Mitchell
Philosophers espouse freedom of thought; the wise, freedom from thought. - Christopher Spranger, The Effort To Fall
Efficiency is intelligent laziness. David Dunham
The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it.
Once one has an idea, one finds it everywhere. - Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris
"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different." --Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that." -- G. H. Hardy
They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. --Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. --Helen Keller
Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. --Madeleine L'Engle
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -- William Shakespeare
Originality does not consist in saying what no one else has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. --James Stephens
A penny for your thoughts; $20 to act it out -randome
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. --A.A. Milne, "Winnie-The-Pooh"
I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
The sleep of reason breeds monsters. -Francisco de Goya
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. -Thomas Carlyle
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto nonexistent blindingly obvious. The cry "I could have thought of that" is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. -Douglas Adams
We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death....Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. ~Bertrand Russell
The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. -Buddha
Efficiency is intelligent laziness. - David Dunham
Philosophers espouse freedom of thought; the wise, freedom from thought. - Christopher Spranger, The Effort To Fall
Once one has an idea, one finds it everywhere. - Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris
"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different." --Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that." -- G. H. Hardy
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. --Helen Keller
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