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3 Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes on Thinking

Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotes on thinking

  1. The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

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  2. The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.

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  3. A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

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