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Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. Common parlance alludes to this weakness in the frequently heard phrase: PEOPLE DO NOT THINK.
The Art of Thinking (1928)
Very busy people always find time for everything.
Conversely, people with immense leisure find time for nothing.
The Art of Thinking (1928)
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.
The Art of Thinking (1928)
Self-expression is individuality, and our individuality is our self, which ought to be our chief concern
The Art of Thinking (1928)
Social intercourse, with its … hypocrisy … is highly productive of thought-hindering insincerity.
The Art of Thinking (1928)
Every day you waste a chance, many chances in fact, of getting at your innermost consciousness by expressing yourself as you see yourself, and I say it is a pity because it makes you, year after year and day after day more like anybody else and more anonymous.
The Art of Thinking (1928)
Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions. We also forget that genius is not genius all the time, although it is superior all the time.
The Art of Thinking (1928)
The more a man thinks the better adapted he becomes to thinking, and education is nothing if it is not the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Precisely. Theoretically, education is a mental training aiming at greater intellectual elasticity, but the question is whether education does not often strain, instead of train, a mind.
The Art of Thinking (1928)