Quotes by Thinking Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up. Abraham Lincoln get-uplittlesthinking You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill. Abraham Lincoln jobsmenthinking I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. Abraham Lincoln apachesuselessthinking As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. Abraham Lincoln casesactionthinking Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt. Abraham Lincoln doubtpeoplethinking You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us. Abraham Lincoln civil-wardifferencesthinking Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals; but I do think I will not. Abraham Lincoln religiousrememberthinking I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union. Abraham Lincoln united-statesdesirethinking I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent. Abraham Lincoln slaverymenthinking Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves. Abraham Lincoln donetimethinking ...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself. Abraham Lincoln governmentmeanthinking I think I stand where that man stands. Abraham Lincoln atheismmenthinking Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into? Abraham Lincoln fitbornthinking I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities. Abraham Maslow takenmenthinking What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave? Abraham Maslow peak-experiencesslavethinking The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything. Abraham Maslow creativityinspirationalthinking He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail. Abraham Maslow hammersnailsthinking [Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church. Abraham Maslow sciencechildrenthinking One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot. Abraham Pais bookpeoplethinking I don't take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker! Abraham Polonsky honorintegritythinking«1516171819202122232425»
