Favorite Quotations
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During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. ~ Bernard M. Baruch You can't stop people from thinking--but you can start them. ~ Frank A. Dusch Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. ~ Henry Ford When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. ~ Walter Lippmann Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier. ~ Charles F. Kettering Thought has been the father of every advance since time. “I didn't think” has cost the world millions of dollars. ~ Thomas J. Watson We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. ~ Buddha If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. All our dignity lies in thought. By thought we must elevate ourselves, not by space and time which we cannot fill. Let us endeavor then to think well; therein lies the principle of morality. ~ Blaise Pascal These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud. ~ Anna Quindlen There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. ~ Hannah Arendt Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose. ~ Albert Einstein
"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not." ~ Denis Waitley