Thinking Quotes - Page 26

• I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Sorry, People, Good Man

  "Living Words". Book by Edwin Hubbel Chapin, 1869.

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• ... I think we grieve forever, but that goes for love too, fortunately for us all.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Grieving, Forever

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• Think first. Talk less. Start today.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Communication, Today, Firsts

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.198, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

  Philip Sidney

  Beautiful, Ambition, Looks

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.81

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• Although pretend play is important, it is still the means to an end, not the end itself. Do not make the mistake of thinking a contrived, pretend drama can substitute for real interpersonal comfort in dealing with important emotional issues.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Real, Mistake, Drama

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• I think it's gone much too far. Most of them are not worth the powder to blow them to hell.

  John C. Bogle

  Blow, Gone, Investing

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• History has shown that in every age and in every field of human knowledge, many of the views which almost everyone accepted as true and never bothered to think about further, were in time proven completely wrong.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Views, Age, Investing

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• Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Investment, Operations

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

  David Gergen

  Leadership, Dream, Heart

  David Gergen (2001). “Eyewitness To Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• If you think God looks only one way or sounds only one way or is only one way, you're going to look right past Me night and day. You'll spend your whole life looking for God and not finding Her. Because you're looking for a Him.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Past

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.53, Penguin

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• Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. Have I not told you all thought is creative?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Creative

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.84, Penguin

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• Thinking is hard. Making value judgments is difficult. It places you at pure creation, because there are so many times you'll have to say, "I don't know. I just don't know." Yet still you'll have to decide. And so you'll have to choose. You'll have to make an arbitrary choice. Such a choice - a decision coming from no previous personal knowledge - is called pure creation. And the individual is aware, deeply aware, that in the making of such decisions is the Self created.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Self

  "Conversations with God". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, December 1998.

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• Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these; yet in reality there is no internal worth in them, and men may understand a thousand languages without being the wiser.

  E.D. Baker

  Reality, Men, Progress

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• The most rapid way to change a root thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse the thought-word-deed process. Do the deed that you want to have the new thought about. Then say the words that you want to have your new thought about. Do this often enough and you'll train the mind to think a new way.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Ideas

  "Conversations with God". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, December 1998.

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• Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Men, Liberty, Deny

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• [Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?]
  We won't know for a few years.

  Stephen Hawking

  Knowledge, Years, Ideas

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• Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy.

  Rumi

  Sky, World, Lovers

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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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, Years

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• We have assurance that we shall be heard in what we pray, because we pray to that God that heareth prayer, and is the rewarder of all that come unto Him; and in His name, to whom God denieth nothing; and, therefore, howsoever we are not always answered at the present, or in the same kind that we desire, yet, sooner or later, we are sure to receive even above that we are able to ask or think, if we continue to sue unto Him according to His will.

  James Ussher

  Prayer, Names, Desire

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• I don't think the Federal Reserve has any role in how high rates are right now. I don't understand why everyone is paying attention to this tapering. The Fed is using one kind of bond to buy another kind of bond. What's the big deal, and why is anyone taking the Fed seriously?

  Eugene Fama

  Attention, Investing, Tapering

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• Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs concerning the processes of understanding, learning, and thinking, among other things. One of the difficulties has been that such theory as has been developed has been based primarily upon studies of behavior of rats and pigeons. As someone has said, some of the theory thus developed has been an insult even to the rat.

  J. P. Guilford

  Should Have, Practice, Psychology

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• I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.

  Avi Rubin

  Technology, Voting, Today

  "Grant Awarded to Improve Electronic Voting" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 16, 2005.

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• No one in his right mind would walk into the cockpit of an airplane and try to fly it, or into an operating theater and open a belly. And yet they think nothing of managing their retirement assets. I've done all three, and I'm here to tell you that managing money is, in its most critical elements even more demanding than the first two.

  William J. Bernstein

  Retirement, Airplane, Two

  "Behavioral Finance And Indexing". Interview with Murray Coleman, www.etf.com. June 12, 2008.

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• Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is that a vast majority of the American people think otherwise.... It violates basic American ideas of thrift and money management. These strong public feelings cannot be ignored forever.

  Mo Udall

  Country, Strong, Believe

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• You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.

  Daniel Levitin

  People, Multitasking, Dopamine

  Daniel Levitin (2015). “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload”, p.327, Penguin UK

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