#thinking

Contemplation not only enlarges the objects of our thoughts, but also the objects of our actions and our affections: it makes

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Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.

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I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

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I don’t care what you think unless it is about me.

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I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.

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Let’s not shirk digging. You can’t think decently if you don’t want to hurt yourself. I know all about it because I am

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It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

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The beginning of a new epoch presupposes a change in human mentality, the liberation of man’s consciousness from the power

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I think a lot, but I don’t say much.

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Do you not see that you are devouring each other in the carelessness of your thought?

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The man of powerful intellect runs over with ideas; he scatters them by the handful. He is wretched if he cannot share them

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It is proper to reconsider whether or not one should carry out any rash undertaking, or anything not thoroughly thought through,...

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I am nervous when writing and all my thoughts are short of breath. And I feel constantly that I cannot completely justify

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Those who are lovers of wisdom should be inquirers into many things.

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What never was seen or heard of, may yet be conceived; nor is any thing beyond the power of thought, except what implies

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Pupils who have stored their “minds” with all kinds of material which they have never put to intellectual uses are sure to

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Our idea of anything is our idea of its sensible effects; and if we fancy that we have any other we deceive ourselves,

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There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

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The strong thinker, the man overflowing with intellectual life, naturally seeks to diffuse his ideas. There is no pleasure

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‘Facts, facts, facts,’ cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is

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My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

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Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.

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The happiness visible to the eye of the thinker is the happiness of mankind. The universal tendency towards suppression

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