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Spanish Proverb

Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.

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What you think is an illusion created by your glands your emotions and in the last analysis by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you’re so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.

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Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

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Friedrich Dilrrenmatt

What was once thought can never be unthought.

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Walter Lippmann

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

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William M. Kelly

Man is a slow sloppy and brilliant thinker the machine is fast accurate and stupid.

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Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn’t be so bad if they thought.

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Facts in books statistics in encyclopedias the ability to use them in men’s heads.

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Martin H. Fisher

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said ‘Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.’ The Greek said ‘All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.’

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