On Thought

"Cogito ergo sum." (translates as "I think, therefore I am.")

- Rene Descartes (1596-1650) ; French mathematician and philosopher, from "Le discours de la methode"
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"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) ; Welsh mathematician and philosopher.
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"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) ; Welsh mathematician and philosopher.
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) ; Welsh mathematician and philosopher.
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"Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day."

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) ; Welsh mathematician and philosopher.
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"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

- Abraham Maslow (1908 - 1970) ; American psychologist
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"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once."

- Rene Descartes (1596-1650) ; French mathematician and philosopher, from "Meditations on First Philosophy" (1641)
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."

- Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) ; English author (of Sherlock Holmes)
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"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."

- Samuel Johnson (aka "Dr Johnson") (1709-1784) ; English writer and scholar.
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"Man prefers to think what he prefers to be true."

- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) ; English philosopher
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"A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still."

- Samuel Butler (1612-1680) ; English satirist
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ; Nobel prize-winning theoretical physicist.
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“Convictions are more dangerous enemies to truth than lies.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900); German philosopher and scholar, from “Human, all too human.”



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