"Our first principles, our basic ideas, are those most intimately tied up with our personality, with the emotional make-up we have inherited or acquired. Detached, impersonal thinking is almost impossible; it hardly ever happens."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Rudolf Flesch, The Art of Clear Thinking (1951), ch. 21. New York: Collier Books, 1962, p. 224
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thought
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Thought
181 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Thought →
Related Quotes
"Thought is free."
"I stood Among them, but not of them: in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts."
"Whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth."
"Upon the cunning loom of thought We weave our fancies, so and so."
"Sempre il miglior non è il parer primiero."
"Thought is something limitless and independent, and has been mixed with no thing but is alone by itself. … What was m…"
"There are no dangerous thoughts, thinking itself is dangerous."
"The kings of modern thought are dumb."
""I exist" does not follow from "there is a thought now." The fact that a thought occurs at a given moment does not en…"
"The power of Thought,—the magic of the Mind!"