Quotes aboutThoughts"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. " -- Dorothy L. Sayers, From the novel Gaudy Night (1935)."An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." -- Albert Camus "By thinking of things, you can understand them." -- James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man "If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused." -- Walter Mondale "That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." -- Doris Lessing, From the novel The Four-Gated City (1969). "It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women." -- Louisa May Alcott, From the novel Little Women (1868). "I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up." -- Mark Twain, From the book The Innocents Abroad (1869) "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. " -- Jonathan Swift "Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. " -- Claude Bernard, From the book An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) "Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite." -- Karl Popper "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." -- George Orwell, From Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), extract from Goldstein's book "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." -- Albert Einstein "Love wisdom itself, what ever it might be and search for it, pursue it, hold it, and embrace it firmly." -- Saint Augustine, Confessions "We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit. " -- Evelyn Waugh, From the novel Decline and Fall (1928) "I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me." -- Simone de Beauvoir, From the book All Said and Done (1974)
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