Andy Warhol Quotes

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

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

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.

All of us, whether we are ignorant of philosophy or professors of philosophy, find it easier to follow dogma than to think.

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion.

When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

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

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

Anybody who French bashes just might as well wear a badge that says 'I am a follower! I don't think for myself and I have no idea what I'm talking about.' That would be a French basher.

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

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

For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.

I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.

An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

Most people don't like to think. This is why human religions are so popular. It almost doesn't matter what the belief system is, as long as it's firm, consistent, clear in its expectation of the follower, and rigid. Given those characteristics, you can find people who believe in almost anything. It's God's way, they say. God's word. And there are those who will accept that. Gladly. Because, you see, it eliminates the need to think.

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

One of the worst things anybody can do is assume. I think fools assume. If people have really got it together, they never assume anything. They believe, they work hard, and they prepare- but they don't assume.

Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?