"there are very few who can think,..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
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?
More by Arthur Schopenhauer
“I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.”
“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.”
“There is something in us that is wiser than our head.”
More on Thought
“The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.”
“I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.”
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.”
More on Opinion
“With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.”
“No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.”
“I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.”