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Think Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
- It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life…
- It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own…
- The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to.…
- I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts…
- The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
- We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small…
- I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free…
- The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.…
- Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to…
- The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as…
- Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,…
- Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
- I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen…
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