Lazy Thinking Quotes

Since the mass of mankind are too ignorant or too indolent to think seriously, if majorities are right it is by accident.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking

I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

Many of us develop different flavors of cynicism that we work hard to resist because they can be lazy mental shortcuts.

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.

There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

Everyone that we disagree with is a racist and a homophobe and Islamophobe and a bigot. It's just silly. It's lazy thinking, and I think it gets us nowhere.

Lazy thinking is not creative or productive.

I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

I called Donald Trump a racist. Nobody that makes that charge is being intellectually honest, or else they're being intellectually lazy.

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

The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have to do is to ask him again. It is rather like keeping one's brain in a suitcase.

People take the lazy way out, and do not regard Putin and the Kremlin as the real enemy. They create a long but erroneous chain in their heads. Putin is the leader of Russia. Putin does X, therefore Russia is doing X, and Russia is our enemy. And so, we introduce sanctions, for example, against Russia.

And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".

Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.

I never do any brainwork that anyone else can do for me

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

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.