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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . . must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.

An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an irishman, afterward.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

...to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon...

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkrs. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.