There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible.
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no genuine morality, no profound feeling of other men's sorrow, no ardent and persevering anxiety for their interests.