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Quote by William James
[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when t
[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. – William James

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. – William James

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One cannot think crooked and walk straight. – Author Unknown

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Belief is when someone else does the thinking. – Buckminster Fuller, 1972

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…the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it… – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. – Albert Einstein

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