Quotes about thinking
552 quotes from 279 people
Archibald MacLeish1892–1982“In Praise of Dissent”, New York Times (16 December 1956)
Horace Mann1796–1859Lectures on Education (1855), Lecture 6- Horace Mann1796–1859Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867), p. 199
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann1875–1955The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Thomas Mann1875–1955Tonio Kröger (1902)- Thomas Mann1875–1955Buddenbrooks [Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie, Roman] (1901). Pt 8, Ch. 2
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Abraham Maslow1908–1970The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance (1966), ch. 2, p. 15
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965Great Novelists and Their Novels (1948)There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
André Maurois1885–1967Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble) (1918), Ch. 12
John Mayerborn 1977Esquire magazine (November 1, 2004)
John McAfee1945–2021Into the Heart of Truth (2001)
Herman Melville1819–1891Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
