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The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.
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The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.
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The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
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The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
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The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
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The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.
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The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
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The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.
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The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert p. 532 -
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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