Mark Twain Quotes

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.

The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

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

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking clearly.

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

Some people would believe anything, especially if it eliminates awkward social and political problems.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the right decision.

In every generation, there's a strong tendency for everyone to think like everyone else.

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

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

Be the kind of person who takes supplements - then skip the supplements.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination