"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."

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"It is not enough to call yourself a 'free thinker' just because you can change your beliefs. A whole mess of people change their beliefs based on what is fashionable rather than what is factual, which, by always following the crowd, would be the complete opposite of the beauty of a free thinker."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Good thinking makes you more attractive to yourself and others."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"The mind is an innovation engine of any human progress, but also the root cause of almost all human problems."

Pearl Zhu, American Author

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"I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs."

Anne Tyler, American Novelist

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"Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts."

Pearl Zhu, American Author

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"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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"I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way."

Robert Guillaume, American Actor

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"If you want to be tall to see the world better, have some high thoughts!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines."

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"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

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"I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should."

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"If the whole world I once could seeOn free soil stand, with the people freeThen to the moment might I say,Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art."

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"A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch, his virtues and greatness belong to himself."

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"The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it."

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"Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do."

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"Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless."

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"If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own."

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"What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours."

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