„The tragedy of a thoughtless man is not that he doesn't think, but that he thinks that he's thinking.“

— Andrzej Majewski

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Polish writer and photographer 1966

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„He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.“

— Joseph Campbell American mythologist, writer and lecturer 1904 - 1987

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„Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.“

— Octavio Paz Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature 1914 - 1998
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„a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah“

— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

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„The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.“

— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

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„Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.“

— André Malraux French novelist, art theorist and politician 1901 - 1976

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„This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?“

— Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

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„That HBO student has some good ideas, but he doesn't seem reliable. I think what he needs is to get laid to become a man.“

— Johan Derksen football player 1949
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„As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.“

— James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

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„I think he's a man of good intentions. I don't doubt it. But I think he's leading us in the wrong direction.“

— George Soros Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist 1930
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„He's probably the world's most beautiful-looking man, yet he doesn't think that he's gorgeous. And to me, he's just smelly, farty Leo.
- Kate Winslet (Vanity Fair, January 1998)“

— Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974

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„The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.“

— Anne Lamott Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954

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„Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.“

— Christian D. Larson Prolific author of metaphysical and New Thought books 1874 - 1962
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„Does man think because he has found that thinking pays?
Does he bring his children up because he has found it pays?“

— Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian-British philosopher 1889 - 1951
§ 467

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„A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.“

— Махатма Ганди pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India 1869 - 1948
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„A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned“

— André Gide, The Immoralist

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„I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.“

— Stephen King, 11/22/63

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