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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. (Quote by - Carl G. Jung)

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are. (Quote by - James Harvey Robinson)

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical (Quote by - Boris Yeltsin)

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park. (Quote by - Henry James)

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. (Quote by - Beverly Jones)

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. (Quote by - George Savile)

We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. (Quote by - L'Estrange)

I went on Love Island thinking I was quite headstrong but it turned out I was quite emotional. (Quote by - Sophie Anderton)

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you. (Quote by - Don Marquis)

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. (Quote by - Amos Bronson Alcott)

Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of... the term 'lateral thinking' has been coined to describe this orther sort of thinking; 'vertical thinking' is used to denote the conventional logical process. (Quote by - Edward De Bono)

There is nothing either good nor bad but thinking makes it so. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age. (Quote by - Davidson Black)

Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory. (Quote by - G. Behn)

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. (Quote by - Tommy Lasorda)

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. (Quote by - Alan Alda)

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party. (Quote by - Dylan Thomas)

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)

Tell that someone that you love, just what you're thinking of, If tomorrow never comes. (Quote by - Garth Brooks)

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