I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.
Walt WhitmanTag: science life certainty doubt thought mistake ideas affection skepticism scientific evidence humble guess surrender
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Tag: intelligence belief thought evolution misattributed-to-einstein open-mindedness development new-ideas
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: fear liberty power freedom democracy thought oppression dictatorship government independent-thought
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.
Isaac AsimovTag: science school writing belief home thought ignorance shame bible library the-bible resentment leader bitter childish childish-beliefs guide guides ignore imagine invade leaders uneducated unimaginative unthinking
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: originality thought quotations
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."
(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)
Tag: knowledge social society opinions dissent thought disagreement equanimity expressing prejudices
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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
Sue GraftonTag: humor thought independent-thought
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Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
ConfuciusTag: thinking education learning thought reflection pedagogy
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco ChanelTag: individuality empowerment freedom courage judgment thought self-determination independence speaking-out dignity
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George OrwellTag: power-of-words language thought propaganda
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