Quotes About Thinking

Being comedian outside of performing, you're someone who's analyzing life, and thinking about it, and observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel sort of on the outside looking in.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Words floating in air, lines cut on a page, stanzas carved into units. Poetry is a mode of associative thinking that takes a different route to knowledge than philosophy, its ancient antagonist. It follows its own wayward but resolute path.

What is man? Storyteller, mythmaker, and destroyer of the living world. Thinking

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

At best, we base our thinking on disconnected facts or snippets of scientific knowledge uninformed by a broader evolutionary perspective.

How could he think his way out of the problem when the problem was the way he thought...

Most people avoid thinking if they can, some of us are addicted to thinking, but Von Neumann actually enjoyed thinking, maybe even to the exclusion of everything else.

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Excessive record-keeping is a symptom of insecurity and defensive thinking. It indicates that you are less concerned attaining objectives than you are with documentation, and that your thinking is oriented to the past, not the present.

I do not allow my possessions—or my prepossessions either—to do any thinking for me.

Education is the only source that bestows the human mind's analytical ability to pursue all branches of knowledge. Awakens logical thinking, ability to seek new knowledge with determination; sharpens talent and enables a human being to lead him or herself along the path to success.

Limited-thinking thinkers think, limited and have no ability, to approach beyond that.

Living and thinking for yourself is not a remarkable life, nor valuable for humanity; it is an undeclared death of oneself. The life devoted to others creates relations and friendship, love, and unity in societies and their inhabitants to make life colourful.

The brain is a parliament of thoughts since that stay active as an all-time activity to form the system of life in all subjects and dimensions.

The idea of a persona goes against North American culture's admiration of openness and authenticity. Europeans have a far better grasp of the value of not saying everything that one is thinking. Yet

You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think.

What you do, what you own, what you plan, what you believe, what you think you are, what you want, and so much more are all the result of beliefs and values you've been trained to have, to be, and to want. Some of this is simply enculturation, but when it takes on the intent of deliberate manipulation, then enculturation per se is an inadequate term.

Not only have you been trained so thoroughly in how to think, but you have also been given the alternatives by which you could object to thinking a certain way.

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person.

Ha parlato bene, ma senza pensare alle conseguenze". "Si parla bene proprio quando non si pensa alle conseguenze".

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day.

Those who take thinking seriously have a serious problem—ignorance and arrogance commingle.