Edward Abbey Thinking Quotations

My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.