Quotes about thinking
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Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Albert Einstein1879–1955From “Atomic Education Urged by Einstein”, New York Times (25 May 1946), and later quoted in the article “The Real Problem is in the Hearts of Man” by Michael Amrine, from the New York Times Magazine (23 June 1946)- Albert Einstein1879–1955Out of My Later Years (1950), Ch. 51 “The Goal of Human Existence” (1943)
- NJNikolaus Joseph von JacquinOften credited to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Albert Einstein1879–1955From “Atomic Education Urged by Einstein”, New York Times (25 May 1946), and later quoted in the article “The Real Problem is in the Hearts of Man” by Michael Amrine, from the New York Times Magazine (23 June 1946)
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Marita in Ch. 11
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s AlmanackAn intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 333
