Rod Serling Quotes

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

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

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.

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.

Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.

People who think well, write well

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

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

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

To think well is to serve God in the interior court.

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

To live sanely in Los Angeles ... you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly but not tensely) the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; those demon voices which are forever whispering in your ear what you should desire, what you should fear, what you should wear and eat and drink and enjoy, what you should think and do and be.

Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think about the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do.

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

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."

...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.