People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen KellerThe only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind
about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
Tags: intelligence thinking
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
PlutarchTags: thinking education mind curiosity mentoring
It seems as if I can only thing if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that is busy doing things with the part that is busy thinking about everything else. I know all these pepole are so busy because they love each other and me. We are a noisy crowd of love
Nancy E. TurnerTags: thinking writing journal
The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.
William Francis ButlerTags: thinking cowardice fighting renaissance-man well-roundedness
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
Warren EllisTags: thinking media television responsibility influence representations
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
Albert EinsteinTags: thinking god religion rational
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
Richard DawkinsTags: science thinking religion critical
According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.
Sam HarrisTags: thinking god religion rational
All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: intelligence thinking reflection exercise walking
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