The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.

Since the mass of mankind are too ignorant or too indolent to think seriously, if majorities are right it is by accident.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. Common parlance alludes to this weakness in the frequently heard phrase: PEOPLE DO NOT THINK.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

the truth is that most people are simply too distracted by their thoughts to have the selflessness of consciousness pointed out directly.

People calculate too much and think too little.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

Busy people are often the most lazy.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

We are sorely deficient in talking with each other and listening to each other. We lack mobility, criticism and self-criticism. We incline to doctrinism. What makes it worse is that so many people do not really want to think. They want only slogans and obedience. They ask no questions and they give no answers, except by repeating drilled-in phrases. They can only assert and obey, neither probe nor apprehend. Thus they cannot be convinced, either. How shall we talk with people who will not go where others probe and think, where men seek independence in insight and conviction?

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Most people don't have the patience to absorb their minds in the fine points and minutiae that are intrinsically part of their work. They are in a hurry to create effects and make a splash; they think in large brush strokes.

Their work inevitably reveals their lack of attention to detail - it doesn't connect deeply with the public, and it feels flimsy.

Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune, and chance.