Quotes About Thinking

men get rich by doing things in a Certain Way; and in order to do so, men must become able to think in a certain way.   A man's way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things.

Man is a thinking substance, a portion of the Cosmic Substance; but man is limited, while God has no limits. We are immersed in mind and that mind contains all knowledge and all truth. It is seeking to give us this knowledge, for God delights to give good gifts to his children.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

We have nearly lost our capacity to think ihcologicafly about public issues and public problems.

A student of Old Testament theology must be alert to the problem of conventional thinking about ontology, thinking that is essentially alien to Old Testament testimony.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, he [Einstein] said.

Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.

In truly effective thinking the prime necessity is to liquidate judgments, regain an innocent eye, disentangle feelings, be curious and open-hearted.

Yet in truly effective thinking the prime necessity is to liquidate judgments, regain an innocent eye, disentangle feelings, be curious and open-hearted.

Zweifel?" rief das Ungeheuer. "Wir reden hier nicht von gesunder Skepsis, mein junger Freund! Nein, ich zweifelte nicht - ich sorgte mich, und das ist ein Unterschied wie... wie zwischen denken und träumen. Ich fing an, mir um alles Gedanken zu machen - um restlos alles! Ich kann mir Sorgen um die Gesundheit machen, um die Zukunft, um die Gegenwart - sogar um die Vergangenheit, was eine besonders sinnlose Variante ist.

Lesen ist eine intelligente Methode, sich selber das Denken zu ersparen.

Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people. Stephen, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)

When I used to take tests in college, I would be very anxious," he told me. "So I came up with a process whereby I would always answer the more obvious questions first. Then, as my anxiety would lessen, I'd start to answer more of the questions that required real thinking.

One good question can give rise to several layers of answers, can inspire decades-long searches for solutions, can generate whole new fields of inquiry, and can prompt changes in entrenched thinking," Firestein writes. "Answers, on the other hand, often end the process.

But if we can't compete with technology when it comes to storing answers, questioning—that uniquely human capacity—is our ace in the hole. Until Watson acquires the equivalent of human curiosity, creativity, divergent thinking skills, imagination, and judgment, it will not be able to formulate the kind of original, counterintuitive, and unpredictable questions an innovative thinker—or even just your average four-year-old—can come up with.

One of the most important things questioning does is to enable people to think and act in the face of uncertainty. As Steve Quatrano of the Right Question Institute puts it, forming questions helps us "to organize our thinking around18 what we don't know.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

In the present day, when popular literature is running into the low levels of life, and luxuriating on the vices and follies of mankind; and when the universal pursuit of gain is trampling down the early growth of poetic feeling, and wearing out the verdure of the soul, I question whether it would not be of service for the reader occasionally to turn to these records of prouder times and loftier modes of thinking; and to steep himself to the very lips in old Spanish romance.

The more you continue to read Scripture, the more you begin to think as He thinks and act as He acts. And that's how, over time, you gain the wisdom of the ages.

just wishful thinking, it could go a tamer way." "But only," Lone said stubbornly, "if I was to light out and not be here when the Halseys arrive. Right?" "That'd help, yeah. I ain't

I was not thinking about the world. I was not thinking about history. I was thinking about my body's small, precise, limited, hungry movement forward into the future that seemed at every instant on the verge of being shut down.

Most people are searching for happines. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves.That's a fundemental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.

Some choices are forever....Just because people aren't in our lives anymore, doesn't mean they stop thinking about us and vice versa.