Assuming Quote by John Stuart Mill

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages…

— Alan Watts

It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where…

— Werner Heisenberg

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It is a profoundly erroneous truism repeated by all copybooks, and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the…

— E.D. Hirsch Jr

I know from experience that to one who thinks much and feels deeply, it often seems that he has only to put down his…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“It takes time for individual thoughts and ideas to realize that they might have a chance to step forward from the recesses of the…

— Steve Prentice

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But…

— Rex Stout

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they…

— Octavia Butler

Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

— Charles Darwin

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one…

— Alan Turing

It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I…

— Anne Carson