Thomas Eakins Quotes

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

Brains are no good if you don't use them.

You should employ your little grey cells.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

I think that God gave us a brain, and that it's the only thing we have to survive. All life forms have some advantage, some trick, some claw, some camouflage, some poison, some speed, something to help them survive. We've got a brain. Therefore it's our duty to use our brain.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Use your brain, not your endurance.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

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

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

The most valuable real estate in the world lies between the president's ears.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

I enjoy a challenge or provocation, something to think about, to talk about after it's done.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

You're actually using your brain. That's what comes from associating with me.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.