Quotes About Thought

Human rationality depends on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brains work so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Somos criaturas profundamente intuitivas y son nuestros instintos los que guían nuestro razonamiento.

Accountability increases exploratory thought only when three conditions apply: (1) decision makers learn before forming any opinion that they will be accountable to an audience, (2) the audience's views are unknown, and (3) they believe the audience is well informed and interested in accuracy.

But the rest of the time—which is almost all of the time—accountability pressures simply increase confirmatory thought. People are trying harder to look right than to be right.

Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.

To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.

Your language indicates??and limits??what you think.

Sixth, fundamentalism, properly understood, is not about religion. It is about the inability to seriously entertain the possibility that one might be wrong. In individuals such fundamentalism is natural and, within reason, desirable. But when it becomes the foundation for an intellectual system, it is inherently a threat to freedom of thought.

A typical master. Right to the end, he didn't give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I'd have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Molto spesso l'attività intellettuale della donna si manifesta in un rimuginare il passato chiedendosi che cosa nella propria o nell'altrui esistenza avrebbe dovuto essere fatto diversamente, oppure nel costruire ossessivamente degli artificiosi nessi causali. Questo atteggiamento mentale viene di solito definito pensiero, mentre in realtà non è altro che una forma inutile e improduttiva di attività intellettuale, una specie di autotortura.

raised in a family that was spared the major convulsions of history and that, having never experienced absolute arbitrariness, thought that if people were arrested, well then, there had to be a reason.

Life is consciousness.

chosen to hold; and therefore they are of our own ordering; and therefore there is perfect justice in the universe. No suffering for another man's original sin, but the reaping of a harvest that we ourselves have sown. We have free will, but our free will lies in our choice of thought.

The highest of all forms of prayer is true contemplation, in which the thought and the thinker become one. This is the unity of the mystic, bit it is rarely experienced in the earlier stages. Pray in whatever way you find easiest; for the easiest way is the best

If it upsets you better not recall it." --from The Chalk Garden

La felicidad es el estado natural del ser humano. Cuando el pensamiento está en sintonía con la vida, con lo natural, con el momento presente, no existe aburrimiento, sino satisfacción.

Está claro que en un mundo en crisis de valores como el nuestro todo vale, todo es tolerable, admitimos cualquier cosa, en concreto todo lo referido al pensamiento y las ideas.

Iban a comerse el mundo y ahora se limitan a comentarlo, si es que lo comentan, circunscritos como están a los límites de su limitada capacidad de pensar.

cree por unos momentos... estar dentro del pensamiento del viento, hasta que comprende que la mente del viento no podrá ser nunca suya ni de nadie

37) Reconozco que son una perla condensada de Monsieur Teste las frases de Valéry que Derain me ha seleccionado: "No era Monsieur Teste filósofo ni nada por el estilo. Ni siquiera era literato. Y, gracias a eso, pensaba mucho. Cuanto más se escribe, menos se piensa".