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George PattonIf everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

 - George Patton

Tags:   creativity  thinking  

Albert EinsteinThe value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

 - Albert Einstein

Tags:   college  education  facts  thinking  

Elon MuskThe problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

 - Elon Musk

Tags:   business  creativity  process  thinking  

Bertrand RussellMen fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. It sees man, a feeble speck, surrounded by unfathomable depths of silence; yet it bears itself proudly, as unmoved as if it were lord of the universe. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

 - Bertrand Russell

Tags:   fear  thinking  thought  

Warren BuffettI insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

 - Warren Buffett

Friedrich NietzscheHe who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

 - Friedrich Nietzsche

Tags:   party  thinking  

Stephen KingI write to find out what I think, and what I found out writing The Colorado Kid was that maybe -- I say just maybe -- it's the beauty of the mystery that allows us to live sane as we pilot our fragile bodies through this demolition-derby world.

 - Stephen King

Tags:   thinking  writing  

Carl JungThinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

 - Carl Jung

Tags:   judgment  thinking  

Jiddu KrishnamurtiLearning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not enslaved by tradition and memory.

 - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tags:   learning  memory  thinking  tradition  

OshoIntelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.

 - Osho

Tags:   experience  intelligence  thinking  

Albert EinsteinThe world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

 - Albert Einstein

Tags:   thinking  world  

Hannah ArendtThought . . .is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately, no other human capacity is so vulnerable, and it is in fact far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.

 - Hannah Arendt

Tags:   freedom  thinking  thought  tyranny  

David HumeLiberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.

 - David Hume

Tags:   liberty  priests  thinking  thoughts  

David HumeThe greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.

 - David Hume

Tags:   people  thinking  truth  

Warren BuffettI like to sit and think and I like to spend a lot of time doing that. Sometimes it's pretty unproductive, but I find it enjoyable to think about business or investment problems. They're easy, it's the human problems that are the tough ones. Sometimes there aren't any good answers to human problems; there is almost always a good answer with money.

 - Warren Buffett

Tags:   business  investments  money  problems  thinking  

Martin Luther KingRarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

 - Martin Luther King

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