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    Steve Hall
    “The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.”
    ― Steve Hall
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    Laurence Sterne
    “Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners”
    ― Laurence Sterne
    tags: manners, morality, morals, respect
    616 likes

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    Aristotle
    “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: ethics, philosphy, self-discovery
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    Albert Schweitzer
    “The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: ethics
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    Stanley Milgram
    “The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.”
    ― Stanley Milgram
    tags: authority, ethics, government, obedience, responsibility, society, state
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    Josh Rushing
    “In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches

    — do the right thing, for the right reason

    — no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.”
    ― Josh Rushing, Mission Al-Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World
    tags: ethics, marine-corps, marines, maxim, right-and-wrong, usmc
    40 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom
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    Samuel Johnson
    “No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
    tags: censure, character-flaws, criticism, double-standards, faults
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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “Five percent of the people think;
    ten percent of the people think they think;
    and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: thinking, willful-ignorance
    1251 likes

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    Susan Sontag
    “To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
    tags: hit, sages, thinking, violence
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    René Descartes
    “Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)”
    ― René Descartes
    tags: latin, life-and-living, mottos, thinking
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    A.A. Milne
    “The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: independent-thought, thinking
    518 likes

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    Steve Jobs
    “Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
    ― Steve Jobs
    tags: complex, hard, simple, thinking, truth, wisdom, worth
    696 likes

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    Harlan Ellison
    “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
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    Banksy
    “Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.
    You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
    at high speed with total clarity.”
    ― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
    794 likes

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    Helen Keller
    “People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: life, thinking
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
    tags: critical-thinking, independent-thought, opinions, skepticism, thinking
    868 likes

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    Henry Ford
    “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”
    ― Henry Ford
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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith
    tags: conformity, food-for-thought, thinking
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: contemplation, life, spiritual, thinking
    331 likes

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  • #22
    “The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.”
    ― M.T. Dismuke
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  • #23
    Harriet Martineau
    “Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.”
    ― Harriet Martineau
    tags: reading, thinking
    68 likes

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    Thomas S. Monson
    “Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers. ”
    ― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson
    tags: thinking, work
    52 likes

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    Albert Szent-Györgyi
    “Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”
    ― Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    tags: creativity, discovery, nobel-laureate, science, thinking
    77 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
    tags: breakfast-of-champions, girls, kurt-vonnegut, machines, manipulation, thinking, women
    304 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: learning, math, mathematical, problem-solving, thinking
    134 likes

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    Roger Ebert
    “An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.”
    ― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
    tags: books, bookstores, history, literature, philosophy, reading, science, self-help, thinking
    101 likes

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  • #29
    Bertrand Russell
    “Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: discouragement, free-thought, liberalism, suppression, thinking
    51 likes

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    Amit Kalantri
    “To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.”
    ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
    tags: act, action, actions, assess, assessment, evaluate, hero, heroes, heroism, human, humans, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, listen, listening, motivation, motivational, motivational-quotes, philosophy, quality, speech, speeches, standard, think, thinking, thought, thoughts, watch, watching, wisdom, wisdom-quotes, word, words
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