A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

George S. Patton

When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking clearly.

Marc Faber

When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.

Roger von Oech

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.

Robin Hobb

When everyone thinks alike, there isn't much thinking taking place. Get out when you can, not when you have to.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

Walter Lippmann

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Edward Abbey

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Eckhart Tolle

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Edward Abbey

The idea that Hispanics or women or any other group of people think alike, vote alike? That's what Democrats want. They want mind-numbed robots who all think alike and who all vote alike. It's easy! You dumb them down, you get rid of critical thinking, and you just have a blob, basically, out there of people that look for the D on the ballot and pull the lever.

Rush Limbaugh

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

Hayao Miyazaki

There's two kinds of thinking. There is conjunctive thinking and there's disjunctive thinking. Disjunctive thinking says it has to be either/or. Now clearly, there are some either/or's - I either trust Christ or I don't. I'm either pregnant or I'm not. But a lot of thinking in Scripture, when it comes to theology is, in my opinion, conjunctive thinking. It's both/and. I believe that and I believe that.