Thinking

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is think with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

~ A. A. Milne

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Watch the river

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

~ A. A. Milne

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There is no hurry

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

~ A. A. Milne

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The White House at Pooh Corner

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She said she didn’t mean it, and I never said she did,
she said she wanted matches and she just took off the lid

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A quotation from A. A. Milne

I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking. With equal truth it may be said that a first-rate mind is not one which does not remember the past, nor is it one which cannot forget the past; it is a mind which will use the past but not be ordered by it. It is a mind independent of everybody and everything but the facts in front of it. It is as little perturbed to find itself sharing a thought with the simple as it is elated to find itself sharing a thought with the subtle.

A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940)

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A quotation from A. A. Milne

Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.

A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Peace with Honour, ch. 16 “Patriotism and Pledges,” sec. 5 (1934)

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A quotation from A. A. Milne

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
(Attributed)

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A quotation from A. A. Milne

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Year In, Year Out, “July” (1952)

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