The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
“And then we turn 18 and even though we never had an original thought we have to make the most important decission… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
“A female's body should be looked at and respected as something divine. At least, that was the original thought, but time marches… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I think if you believe in an idea, then you should put it out there and be as original to the thought… — Farhan Akhtar Copy Share Image
I love hanging out with my friends and family. I really, really, really love articulating original thought. That's probably my core, my… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
If you read some of the recent literature, there is no such thing as whiteness. But we made it up. Not my… — Gregg Popovich Copy Share Image
“Schooling as it presently exists, like science before and religion before that, is necessary to the continuation of our culture and to… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought. — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
“Song-Mi Lee,...her life wholly dedicated to protecting the great man against the importunities of the academic world and soothing his despair at… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Every invention begins with an original thought. You are God’s original thought. You are his initiative, the fruit of his creative inspiration,… — Francois Du Toit Copy Share Image
Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an… — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had… — Justin Chon Copy Share Image
My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“It bothered Veblen’s mother that most people were lazy and had given up original thought a long time ago, stealing stale phrases… — Elizabeth Mckenzie Copy Share Image
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“If you meet life squarely, you are likely to make mistakes, do things you wish you hadn't, say things you wish you… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
“I’m now convinced that if I think I have an original thought, I just haven’t read enough. So I’m pretty sure others… — David Brisbin Copy Share Image
“Dream big, they say. Shoot for the stars. Then they lock us away for 12 years and tell where to sit, when… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“Indeed it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of his life.… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
“I carry a notepad with me at all times, in case life sends me a bumper sticker slogan that I mistake for… — David Boyne Copy Share Image
