“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”
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Einstein
2 quotes“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”
Bertrand Russell
2 quotes“Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!”
Thomas Jefferson
2 quotes“In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning bec...”
Percy Shelley
2 quotes“Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.”
Adam Smith
1 quote“This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.”
Adrienne Rich
1 quote“Theory-the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees”
Stanley Kubrick
1 quote“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.”
Alan Watts
1 quote“Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how...”
Aldous Huxley
1 quote“[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.”
Alfred Whitehead
1 quote“It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”
Arthur Miller
1 quote“The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.”
Christopher Reeve
1 quote“Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.”