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- However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- God is a thing that thinks.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
- The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966)
- 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 (1749 - 1832)
- The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
- Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.
- Charles Buxton
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