“ Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. ”
- Lord Chesterfield- Copy
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“ An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected.". ”
- A. P. Herbert- Copy
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“ When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ I do know of these that... only are reputed wise for saying nothing. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened. ”
- Tom Stoppard- Copy
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“ Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling. ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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“ Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. ”
- Alexis Carrel- Copy
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“ I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it. ”
- Martina Navratilova- Copy
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“ Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ It is never wise to seek or wish for another's misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. ”
- Charley Reese- Copy
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“ I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law. ”
- Fisher Ames- Copy
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“ If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all? ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ I remember thinking, The bullets are working I think I felt a little regret that they were working. ”
- Mark David Chapman- Copy
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“ I think the wise and strategic thing to do is to have a two-track policy. ”
- David Smith- Copy
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“ Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all. ”
- Bob Dole- Copy
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“ Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. ”
- Arthur Miller- Copy
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