quote: thought

  • Dissidents should be paid 13 months’ salary for a year, otherwise our mindless unanimity will bring us to an even more hopeless state of stagnation. It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must…

  • Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. – Bertrand Russell

  • I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. – Galileo

  • Minds are like parachutes, they only function when opened. – Unknown

  • A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. – Soren Kierkegaard

  • Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale

  • I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. – John Burroughs

  • Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. – Soren Kierkegaard

  • It’s life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all. But what’s the use of talking! I suspect that all I’m saying now is so like the usual commonplaces that I shall certainly be taken for a lower-form schoolboy sending in his…