Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level.
Men should strive to think much and know little.
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
When men think much, they can rarely decide.
The less men think, the more they talk.
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