It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.
People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
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