Quotes about thinking
552 quotes from 279 people
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thomas Paine1737–1809“Reflections on Titles”, Pennsylvania Magazine (May, 1775)An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Agrarian Justice (1797)
Blaise Pascal1623–1662De l’Art de persuader [“On the Art of Persuasion”], written 1658; published posthumously.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. 333Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 362An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
- Laurence J. Peter1919–1990Entry for September 24; as quoted in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1993), ed. Suzy Platt, Library of Congress, , p. 78
Freud was, after all, a genius. You can tell that because people still hate him.
Jordan Petersonborn 196212 Rules for Life (2017), p. 243Sometimes I wish I wasn’t as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.
River Phoenix1970–1993Premiere (1988)They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849“Eleonora” (1841).
Henri Poincaré1854–1912Preface, Dover abridged edition (1952), p. xxii
