Thought Avoidance Quotes

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.

I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.

Worship God. It’s easier than thinking.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that.

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

I'm not a big thinker. The less thinking the better.

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

I think that's the worst thing that can happen, when you start thinking too much. I don't like that so I just talk to my players because then you do not have time to think.

For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.