Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices

Read it as you would any other book think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes drive from your heart the phantom of fear push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire

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

Everything will be all right - you know when ? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves