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Thinking Quotes by Edward Abbey
- I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.
- I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if…
- Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
- My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He…
- The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.
- Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
- The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.
- Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
- Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where…
- Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
- The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority…
- God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.
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