Emma Goldman on thinking

The real pioneers in ideas, in art and in literature have remained aliens to their time, misunderstood and repudiated.

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer’s ideas or personality.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle384–322 BC

• Education
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He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Confucius551–479 BC

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