Naomi Wolf Quotes

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

I realized that, to a large degree, I had kept my rational mind at bay my whole life. I just acted on intuition in terms of how I related to life. At some point, my rational mind started creeping in, and it would not shut up. I finally had to address it and confront it. I think most intelligent people, at a younger age than I have, begin to question some of the fundamental assumptions our society promotes. But me, I just rejected it without even considering it.

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there. So rather than correct the weird ideas, I would rather them to know how to think in the first place. Then they can correct the weird idea themselves.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I don't want your vote. I want something more important. I want your commitment to think. Because once you start thinking, I'll get your vote.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

I have always found myself trying to study and analyze the world around me - not just taking everything for granted and following whatever is popular.

I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot.

He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

Lazy thinking is not creative or productive.

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.