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“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.” Confucius, “Analects”

“Stop thinking, and end your problems.” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison.” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“Writing is good, thinking is better.” Hermann Hesse, “Siddhartha” - 1922

“To determine not to think of it was but to think of it still, to suffer from it still.” Marcel Proust, “Swann's Way” - 1913

“Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.” Emma Goldman, “Anarchism and Other Essays” - 1910

“O, teach me how I should forget to think!” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“'I don't think—' 'Then you shouldn't talk'” Lewis Carroll, “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” - 1865

“To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“If you’re for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.” Maya Angelou, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” - 1969

“True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?” Plato, “The Republic”

“It was a lonely life to lead, for I had nothing to think of, having been made such a little while before.” L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 1900

“But in this retirement of the mind from the senses, it often retains a yet more loose and incoherent manner of thinking, which we call dreaming.” John Locke, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” - 1689

“LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1911

“That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

“You don't have to think too hard when you talk to a teacher.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

“Thinking is common to all.” Heraclitus, “On Nature” - c. 535 – c. 475 BCE

“Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.” Hermann Hesse, “Siddhartha” - 1922

“Thinking is the hardest work any one can do—which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.” Henry Ford, “My Life and Work” - 1922

“They give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking, or the intentional noting of connections; learning naturally results.” John Dewey, “Democracy and Education” - 1916

“Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.” Baruch Spinoza, “Ethics” - 1677

“Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.” John Dewey, “Democracy and Education” - 1916

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

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