Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon Quotes

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

The empires of the future are empires of mind.

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

People who think well, write well

All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres.

It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.

Intellect is stronger than cannon.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.

Within the book and volume of thy brain.

I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

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

Thinking nurseth thinking.

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

I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

I think, therefore I am confused.

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.