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  I thought it was, "You can't always judge a book by its cover."
  Which makes perfect sense. A cover should give you a glimpse of the story to come, but it's purpose is also to sell the book, so it might not accurately display the book contents. Or the book designer never read the book, who knows.
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  Remember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not "thoughts had in the shower!"
  (For an explanation of what a "showerthought" is, please read this page.)
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  They say don't judge a book by it's cover, but they also say a picture paints more than a 1000 words. >
  
  No, they don't.  They say a picture paints a thousand words.  No one says "a picture paints more than a one thousand words". >
  
  A thousand words and not one more! >
  
  But isn't that kind of a meta argument?  Because the cover designers know the saying, too? An infinite loop of trying to sell books by their covers to people who are told to do the opposite, only to come up with new schemes of color, etc, to attract eyes.   And then repeat >
  
  We, as people, are generally irrational. Just because we know we shouldn’t do something doesn’t mean we won’t do that thing. There’s obvious traps that people fall for all of the time. So ideally, one would think because we know this quote, we should live according to it. But often times we don’t, despite knowing it. >
  
  This is another repost... don't people have original thoughts anymore 🤦‍♂️
  But yes, that is the point of a cover, which is why the phrase exists so people don't get drawn in by a good cover and end up reading a bad book or get put off from a good book just because of a bad cover...
  "Don't trust a salesperson" is another example where you shouldn't listen to them and make a decision based on just what they say because that is the whole purpose of a salesperson.
  I think you must misunderstand the phrase. >
  
  
  This is another repost... don't people have original thoughts anymore
  
  Do you really think that with the entirety of human history, that you've ever had an "original thought?" This phrase, it bugs me more than someone reposting something. Most thoughts now days aren't original. Even less so are thoughts that come to you while doing a routine (i.e. a "shower thought"). Most shower thoughts aren't original, because, we just aren't that original anymore. We think in derivatives of other people's words and in our experiences, everything we know, we've been taught by someone. Unless you're a top scientist breaking through new technologies your thoughts probably aren't that original, even less so are your "shower thoughts."
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  /rant. >
  
  Well, all posts must be original and must be a shower"thought" so if you are correct, then every single post on here breaks the rules.
  It all depends on exactly how you define "original thought". If you focus specifically on the actual thought rather than the general idea of the thought, then I do think it's possible more people have had original thoughts than you think.