A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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Philosophize, to think your life and to live your thoughts: for that is what philosophy is.
People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill. Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
Idiots: Those who do not think like us.
Music is noise that thinks.
Men should strive to think much and know little.
For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
I think, therefore I am.
I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
He who has thought most deeply loves what is most alive.
Sometimes I think. Sometimes I am.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.
He who thinks little, errs much.
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Unthinking people are like sleepwalkers.
Everything clever has already been thought; we must only try to think it again.
All is said, we have come too late; for more than seven thousand years there have been men, thinking.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.
We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.
If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer... And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think.
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