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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.— Richard Feynman
Thinking well is a skill. These quotes for wise thinking are training. Read one. Then make your next decision a little more carefully.
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More topics ›The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.— Richard Feynman
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.— Aristotle
Doubt everything. Find your own light.— Buddha
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.— Euripides
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.— Thomas Edison
To think is to differ.— Clarence Darrow
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.— Henry Ford
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.— Joseph Addison
Anyone who never made a mistake never tried anything new.— Albert Einstein
Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that, thoughts.— Allan Lokos
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.— Werner Heisenberg
Wise thinking begins with asking better questions.— Anonymous
Slow your thinking. Quick reactions cost dearly.— Anonymous
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.— William James
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.— James Thurber
To think clearly, you must remove certainty.— Anonymous
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.— Socrates
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.— Goethe
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.— Francis Bacon
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.— Bertrand Russell
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.— Plato
You cannot solve a problem at the level of consciousness that created it.— Albert Einstein
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.— Thomas Paine
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.— Eva Young
Sometimes the most important thinking happens when you stop trying.— Anonymous
Think big. Start small. Move steady.— Anonymous
Wise thinking is willing to be wrong.— Anonymous
The mind is everything. What you think you become.— Buddha
Thinking is the soul of being.— Anonymous
Real thinkers do not need certainty. They need clarity.— Anonymous