Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

I like when my mind is being stimulated and challenged, and I'm forced to be creative.

I just like the obstacle course of figuring out something.

I like movies as a viewer that challenge me to actually think rather than spoon feed everything to me.

I like my mind being stimulated. I like discovering new concepts.

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

I like when something makes you think after you stop watching.

A lot of stuff people do these days is not mentally challenging.

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.

You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.

I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film.

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

Games have to be relevant intellectually.

I think I was just constantly seeking mental stimulation from anything I could get.

People say Wu-Tang makes you think too much. What's wrong with thinking?

I'm asking people to think critically and not to be lazy in their thinking.

You're actually using your brain. That's what comes from associating with me.

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

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

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.