Thinking Quotations

Ten random inspirational quotations about various aspects of thinking are displayed below. Use the search boxes to the right, to search for quotations by category, person, time period and key word. Use these quotes by famous people for daily inspiration.

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George Bernard Shaw

'The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.'

Time period: 20th/21st century
Categories: General

John F. Kennedy

'Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.'

Time period: 20th/21st century
Categories: Brain Learning

Hubert H. Humphrey

'The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.'

Time period: 20th/21st century
Categories: Logic

Francis Bacon

'Silence is the virtue of fools.'

Leonardo Da Vinci

'Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.'

Time period: 11th - 15th Century
Categories: Logic Truth

Walter Lippmann

'We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.'

Time period: 20th/21st century
Categories: Belief

Anon

'You've never lived until you've almost died, for those who fought for it, life has a flavor the protected will never know.'

Time period: 18th/19th Century
Categories: War

George Bernard Shaw

'No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.'

Time period: 20th/21st century

Anna Freud

'Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.'

Time period: 18th/19th Century
Categories: Creativity

Salvador Dali

'Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.'

Time period: 18th/19th Century
Categories: Positive Thinking

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