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Thinking Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
- To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
- The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
- I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have…
- It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.
- The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets…
- 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…
- And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring…
- The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is…
- The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other…
- The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same…
- 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.
- The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they…
- 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.…
- Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year…
- 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…
- The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches.…
- 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,…
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- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
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- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams