Quotes About Thought

Dr. Malcolm," Hammond explained, "is a man of strong opinions." "And mad as a hatter," Malcolm said cheerfully. "But you must admit, these are nontrivial issues. We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told—and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.

Ma bisogna ammettere che queste non sono questioni banali. Viviamo in un mondo pieno di orride convenzioni. Si dà per scontato che ci si debba comportare in un determinato modo, che ci si debba curare di determinate cose. Nessuno pensa alle convenzioni di base. Non è straordinario? Nella società dell'informazione, nessuno pensa. Eravamo convinti che avremmo abolito la carta, ma in realtà abbiamo abolito il pensiero.»

In the information, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

There is a peculiar neo-Stalinist mode of thought that is required to support all this, and it can thrive only in a restrictive setting, behind closed doors, without due process. In our society, only universities have created that—so far. The notion that these institutions are liberal is a cruel joke. They are fascist to the core, I'm telling you.

Everyone will think the same thing at the same time. Global

Los seres humanos nunca piensan por su cuenta, les resulta incómodo. En general, los miembros de nuestra especie se limitan a repetir lo que oyen y se desconciertan ante cualquier punto de vista.

He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else, something he felt but could not describe: porous and spiky, shifting with flecks of thought, with urge and memory; salted with brightness, flickerings of white and green and pale gold; something that loved stars because it was made of the same substance.

Önce düÅŸünür ve sonra da cevap vermeye gerek görmezse susard?. Cevap vermesi gerektiÄŸine inan?rsa, daha da uzun düÅŸünürdü. ... çünkü Beppo'ya göre, dünyadaki bütün anlaÅŸmazl?klar kas?tl? ya da kas?ts?z, aceleye getirilerek söylenmiÅŸ birtak?m yalan yanl?? sözlerden kaynaklan?yordu.

Mostly what you had was on the agitated side of half-sleep, you thought you were sleeping but you were really just waiting.

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

The only thing any of us can do completely on our own is to have the start of a good idea.

the people who already saw themselves as experts in the field would be least capable of original thought.

I hated discussing ideas with investors," he said, "because I then become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process." Once you became an idea's defender you had a harder time changing your mind about it.

It wasn't that what first came to mind was always wrong; it was that its existence in your mind led you to feel more certain than you should be that it was correct.

Not even Steve Bannon thought this was a good idea. "I was fucking nervous as shit," Bannon later told friends. "I go," Holy

She'd heard a line once that still resonated with her: The only thing any of us can do completely on our own is to have the start of a good idea.

I hated discussing ideas with investors, he said, because I then become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process. Once you became an idea's defender you had a harder time changing your mind about it.

Education is not acquiring a stock of ready-made ideas, images, sentiments, beliefs and so forth; it is learning to look, to listen, to think, to feel, to imagine, to believe, to understand, to choose and to wish.

Our heroes do not usually, after a certain age, teach or guide us anymore. They choose instead to protect the last territory where they find themselves. Adventurous thought is replaced with almost invisible needs. Those who once mocked the traditions they fought against with laughter now provide only the laughter, not the mockery.

Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination.