Vivienne Westwood Quotes

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

I don't want your vote. I want something more important. I want your commitment to think. Because once you start thinking, I'll get your vote.

I have an old-fashioned belief that Americans like to make up their own minds on the basis of all available information.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

One has to be realistic. One’s concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. That’s very important.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the tree of knowledge and hooting the hoots that have been hooted for eighteen hundred years. But I want it so that each one can be an investigator, a thinker; and I want to make his congregation grand enough so that they will not only allow him to think, but will demand that he shall think, and give to them the honest truth of his thought.

The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process is very distinctly weighted against the asking of an intelligent question or the recording of a thoughtful answer.

It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

I only form an opinion when I feel that I've done sufficient research and have sufficient access to information.

But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person

A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

...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.