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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists. - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,

In indolent vacuity of thought.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

No brain is stronger than its weakest think.

I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

A library is thought in cold storage.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

One thought fills immensity.

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

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Thought is borne of failure.

It is better to light 1 candle than to curse the darkness.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.