Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

—Christopher Morley

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

—Christopher Morley in Where the Blue Begins

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

—Christopher Morley

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

—Christopher Morley

There is only one rule for being a good talker—learn to listen.

—Christopher Morley

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

—Bertrand Russell

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

—Alfred Korzybski

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

—Terry Pratchett

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

—Jerry Seinfeld