#think

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#absolute #absolute power #allows #belief #clear

Everybody thinks they'll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you can't. ↗

— Alan Sillitoe

#being #everybody #find #get #get married

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities---that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#reason #thinking #education

Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same. ↗

— Richard Mitchell

#reasoning #thinking #training #vocation #education

In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education. ↗

— Jerome S. Bruner

#thinking #education

Educate the children in your country well, and then sit and watch the rise of your country like a Sun on the horizon! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#education

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#positive-thinking #experience

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#critical-thinking #faith #reason #religion #faith

لا تستهين بنفسك ، حتى لو كنت قطرة ، محاولاتك المستمرة .. بصبر تستطيع أن تفتت الصخر ↗

— Hany Adieb

#god #hope #life #positive-thinking #religion

King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#alone #among #besides #construction #distinct