[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one…

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

— A. A. Milne

I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

— W. G. Sebald

“You see, they think they're saving you, and you think you're saving them. That's where the trouble starts. Someone says, 'I saved you, now…

— Bhutto Benazir

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with…

— A.A. Milne

To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.

— Anonymous

Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling,…

— Rudolf Rocker

“Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.”

— Banksy

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

— Emma Goldman

Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.

— Ann Aguirre

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

— Sue Grafton

“Life demands more thinking than remembering.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only…

— Daniel Barenboim

“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is so overwhelming…

— Slavoj Žižek

You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that…

— Bob Proctor

“Everybody goes where everybody goes.”

— Thomas Vato