Christopher Morley Thinking Quotations

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.

Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.