Clear Thinking Quotes - Page 2

• ... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.

  Edith Hamilton

  Thinking, People, Literature

  Edith Hamilton (1964). “The Ever-Present Past”

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• The rush of sexual attraction can act like a drug and blur our capacity for clear thinking. This can lead us to distance ourselves from our friends or even abandon our life plan for someone who couldn't otherwise be relied on to water our plants and feed our cat.

  Harriet Lerner

  Distance, Cat, Thinking

  "The Top 10 Reasons Women Re-Marry The Wrong Guys" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2012.

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• We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.

  Lynne Truss

  Thinking, Intellectual, Degrees

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• Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.

  Lynne Truss

  Thinking, Causes, Punctuation

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• Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.

  Douglas Leone

  Thinking, Looks, Fancy

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• After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking.

  Rebecca West

  War, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Annual Obituary 1983". Book edited by Elizabeth Devine and Marion Stoker Morgan, p. 143, 1984.

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• I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate.

  Michael Nutter

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Thinking, Principles

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• If so, I couldn't imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn't their strong point.

  Ann Aguirre

  Strong, Morning, Thinking

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.43, Macmillan

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• Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Special, Bars

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• Neckties strangle clear thinking.

  Lin Yutang

  Thinking, Neckties, Management

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• The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Speech, Psychedelic

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• Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off elaborate hoaxes. But while Santa and the bunny suffer the derision of eight year olds everywhere, actively-managed stock funds still have an ardent following among otherwise clear-thinking adults. This continued loyalty amazes me. Reams of statistics prove that most of the fund industry's stock pickers fail to beat the market.

  Jonathan Clements

  Loyalty, Easter, Thinking

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• I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

  Lin Yutang

  Thinking, Neckties, Clear

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• Good farming, clear thinking, right living.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Thinking, Farming, Clear

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• Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Thinking, Talent, Moments

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