Herbert V. Prochnow Quotes

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views.

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.

You can lead a man to Congress, but you cannot make him think.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.

I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.

Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.

Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.

My fans get enough politics on TV every day. I want them to think for themselves. I don't want them to listen to me.

Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.

But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor

These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.

Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking.

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.

A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: "What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of print?" In the same way, we never thought to ask, "How will our lives, our way of thinking, be changed by the internet, which has seduced a whole generation with its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess that, once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging etc?"

We need to provide an education which teaches crit­ical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values.

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture. And you still have your hands to contend with. If you're 70, no one is going to think you're 35. The whole concept is kind of stupid.

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking.