Alexander von Humboldtยท1845In the great chain of causes and effects, no single fact can be considered in isolation.
William Strunk Jr.ยท1918ยทIthaca, New York, United StatesPrefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.
Isaac Newtonยท1727Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Charlie Mungerยท1994You've got to have models in your head. And you've got to array your experience โ both vicarious and direct โ on this latticework of models.
James Allenยท1903You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
Epictetusยท135 ADMen are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.
James Allenยท1903ยทIlfracombe, EnglandA man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
Marcus Aureliusยท170 ADยทCarnuntumThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
John MuirWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
Marcus Aureliusยท173 ADยทVindobonaEverything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Galileo Galileiยท1615I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
Hypatiaยท415 ADยทAlexandriaReserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.