Quotes about thinking
552 quotes from 279 people
Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.
Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow1915–2005To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account (1976), p. 127Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten but they may start a winning game.
Walter Lippmann1889–1974The Stakes of Diplomacy (1915), Ch. IV: “The Line of Least Resistance”, p. 51Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I (21 December 1762)An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
