Quotes about thinking
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Charles F. Brannan1903–1992Often credited to George Bernard ShawA mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948In Ethical Religion, (Madras: S. Ganesan, 1922), p. 62, Scan from Harvard University Library (both only work with an U.S. source IP address)Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Letter to Morris Raphael Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, defending the appointment of Bertrand Russell to a teaching position (19 March 1940).Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain1835–1910The Innocents Abroad (1869), Ch. 7
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)We become what we think about all day long. The question is, ‘What do you think about?’
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
