Quotes with thinking--not

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  • William James A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bertrand Russell A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Golda Meir A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Thomas Paine A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Ernest Hemingway A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Jan Christian Smuts A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.
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  • Marcus Aurelius A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Confucius A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Barbara de Angelis A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bertrand Russell A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Horace A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Shawn McCabe A snake is afraid of a mongoes, a mongoes is afraid of a dog, a dog is
    afraid of man, but why is man not afraid of God?
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  • George Orwell A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mark Twain A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Epictetus A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Michel Eyquem de Montaigne A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
    Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Betty Friedan A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Anna Held A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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