David Duchovny Quotes

Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.

Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.

Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.

We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

Mental inertia is death.

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down

Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.

-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.

To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think

I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.