On Thinking

“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer and philosopher

“It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.”

- G. H. Hardy, mathematician

“I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”

- Terry Pratchett, fantasy author

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

- William Shakespeare, bard and poet

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”

- Henry Ford, inventor of the assembly line and modern mass production