Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking clearly.

Where all think alike, none thinks very much.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

Group action -- yes; group thinking -- no.

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Many guys seem to think that his thoughts and feelings are always right and always the best option. I think I am the same kind of guy.

To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.

In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

Unanimity of opinion is characteristic of savages and civilization only advances as more and more people have the right to call wrong what the majority calls right..

Even intelligent people succumb to their own propaganda.