"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of..." - Quote by John F Kennedy
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
More by John F Kennedy
“Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.”
“What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart?”
“I believe in an America that is on the march - an America respected by all nations, friends and foes alike - an America that is moving, doing, working, trying - a strong America in a worldof peace. That peace must be based on world law and world order, on the mutual respect of all nations for the rights and powers of others and on a world economy in which no nation lacks theability to provide a decent standard of living for all of its people.”
More on Thought
“Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.”
“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”
“Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.”
More on Wisdom
“Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.”
“I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.”
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”