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Thinking

«There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.»
«There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.»
«The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | About: Loneliness, Thinking | Keywords: genuine
«There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.»
Author: Joshua Reynolds (Painter) | About: Effort, Laziness, Thinking | Keywords: expedient
«The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.»
«The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.»
«The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison (Inventor) | About: Thinking | Keywords: turmoil
«The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be noblest»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Action, Thinking | Keywords: noblest
«There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | About: Mind, Reflection, Thinking, Thought | Keywords: accord, bolt, distinct
«There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation many things remain incomprehensible and dark. And though the society in which we live considers such actions thoughtless, or reckless, or I don't k»