There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.
- Thomas Alva Edison. Motto
In this world, if a man sits down to think, he is immediatel asked if he has the headache.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson. Journal, 16 September 1833
What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Intellect,” Essays: First Series, 1841
To think is to search for clearings in a wood.
- Jules Renard. Journal, March 1894, tr. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget, 1964
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
- George Bernard Shaw
