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Quotes about thinking

If you have a gun, you can go out and shoot one, two, three, five people. But if you have an ideology and stick to it, thinking it is the absolute truth, you can kill millions.

—Thích Nhất Hạnh

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What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

—Meister Eckhart

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Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

—H. Mumford Jones

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At times I think and at times I am.

—Paul Valéry

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

—Charles Kettering

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Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.

—Bertrand Russell

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It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

—Horace Mann

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

—Sophocles

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You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

—Simone Elkeles in Leaving Paradise

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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

—George Orwell

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Love is faithful, love is kind, love is patient. Love is not—I wasn't thinking.

—Tarryn Fisher in F*ck Love

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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

—Niels Bohr

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An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply.

—Zadie Smith

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In that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

—John Corey Whaley in Noggin

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