Quotes About Thought

Half the urge to write is the premonition that later the thought I am having might disappear so I had better write it down while I still have the inclination, however overshadowed this desire is by indolence.

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

Much of Upanishadic thought represents a radical break with the Vedas.

he female sex (and, for that matter, sex in general) has never found favour with any of the world's religions, or with their priests and prophets (which should make us stop and think a little about religion in general, but that's another book.)

Dwelling. Miles repeated the word to himself. It was a strange word.

A free conscience is not bound by its own opinion."

A sentence is a set of words expressing themselves. A book is a set of words put together to change your consciousness."

Light up your life by turning on your brain."

There are those who give wings to imagination and put wisdom in a cage."

Thought is like the universe, few see the stars.

Bir korku duyup duymad???m? anlamaya çal???yorum. Ama korku duyup duymad???m üzerinde dü?ünebiliyorsam, bu korku gerçek bir korku olamaz.

Politically, we are still stuck in the systems of thought of the Greek and Roman slave states, no matter how much we rant about "democracy.

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

Qué es el sentido común sino la pereza inherente a nuestro entendimiento, de salir del recinto tan pequeño y tan mezquino de nuestras representaciones y admitir la posibilidad de otras premisas?

Fast thinking includes both variants of intuitive thought—the expert and the heuristic

as the psychologist Jonathan Haidt said in another context, "The emotional tail wags the rational dog.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed. Memory

Judgment can therefore be described as measurement in which the instrument is a human mind.

Rationality is logical coherence—reasonable or not.

We must be inclined to believe it because it has been repeated so often, but let's think it through again.

Self-control and deliberate thought apparently draw on the same limited budget of effort.... This is how the law of least effort comes to be a law. Even in the absence of time pressure, maintaining a coherent train of thought requires discipline.

thought—the expert and the heuristic—as well as the entirely automatic mental activities of perception and memory, the operations that enable you to know there is a lamp on your desk or retrieve the name of the capital of Russia.

I describe mental life by the metaphor of two agents, called System 1 and System 2, which respectively produce fast and slow thinking. I speak of the features of intuitive and deliberate thought as if they were traits and dispositions of two characters in your mind. In the picture that emerges from recent research, the intuitive System 1 is more influential than your experience tells you, and it is the secret author of many of the choices and judgments you make.