Thinking Alike Quotes

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Benjamin Franklin

Success, Freedom, Thinking

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Education, Children, Growing Up

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

George S. Patton

Motivational, Business, Military

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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Bill Gates

Inspirational, Success, Teacher

Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

Positive, Thinking Of You, Attitude

FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 08, 2014

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All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

Groucho Marx

Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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When all think alike, then no one is thinking

Walter Lippmann

Success, Funny Inspirational, Creativity

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

Life, Philosophical, Thinking

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Billy Connolly

Funny, Music, Witty

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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Mao Zedong

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Edward Abbey

Hate, Thinking, Air

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Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.

Andy Warhol

Thinking, Years, Individuality

Eric Shanes, Andy Warhol (1991). “Warhol”, Gramercy Books

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Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

Alex Van Halen

Thinking, Talking, Mind

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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Edward Abbey

Thinking

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Herb? Herb is the healing of the nation, seen? Once you smoke herb, you all must think alike. Now if you thinking alike, dat mean we 'pon the same track. If we 'pon the same track, that mean we gonna unite.

Bob Marley

Healing, Mean, Thinking

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Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.

Clarence John Laughlin

Thinking, Imagination, Acting

Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”

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