329 quotes found
“Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings and speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
“The real offence as she ultimately perceived was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.”
“To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous.”
“The thoughts that come often unsought and as it were drop into the mind are commonly the most valuable of any we have.”
“Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.”
“Man is a slow sloppy and brilliant thinker the machine is fast accurate and stupid.”
“Facts in books statistics in encyclopedias the ability to use them in men's heads.”
“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.”
“What you think is an illusion created by your glands your emotions and in the last analysis by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park...”
