Greatest pleasures Quote by Thomas A. Edison

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to…

— Albert Schweitzer

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. A favorite of Thomas Alva Edison

— Joshua Reynolds

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

— Walter Scott

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

— Oscar Wilde

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

— Anonymous

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

— Anonymous

“The man who can be contented to live with a pretty and useful companion who has no mind has lost in voluptuous gratifications a…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of…

— Stendhal

“There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.”

— Thomas A. Edison

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature

— Mencius