Quotes About Thinking

A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

It is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.

Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.

There is no room for Judah's thinking that its position as the people of God means it will escape if its stance toward Yahweh is no different from theirs.

I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.

Britain's decision to send troops to the city did more to change the thinking of Bostonians than any step previously taken by London.

I'll think of something," he temporized, and Horace nodded wisely, satisfied that Halt would indeed think of something. In Horace's world, that was what Rangers did best, and the best thing a warrior apprentice could do was let the Ranger get on with thinking while a warrior took care of walloping anyone who needed to be walloped along the way. He settled back in the saddle, contented with his lot in life.

She shook her head in admiration. "You've thought of everything," she said. But Will looked up at her and shook his head solemnly. "I doubt it," he said. "No matter how thoroughly you plan, no matter how much you think you know, you've never thought of everything.

Even though it was after midnight, the lights were still burning in Baron Arald's office when Halt and Gilan reached the castle. The Baron and Sir Rodney, Redmont's Battlemaster, had a lot of planning to do, preparing for the march to the Plains of Uthal, where they would join the rest of the kingdom's army. When Halt explained Gilan's need, Sir Rodney was quick to see where the Ranger's thinking was headed.

do was let the Ranger get on with thinking, while he took care of walloping anyone who needed to be walloped along the way.

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.

there is no concept of a "natural" world in ancient Near Eastern thinking. The dichotomy between natural and supernatural is a relatively recent one.

The idea that people think with their hearts describes physiology in ancient terms for the communication of other matters; it is not revelation concerning physiology. Consequently we need not try to come up with a physiology for our times that would explain how people think with their entrails. But a serious concordist would have to do so to save the reputation of the Bible. Concordists believe the Bible must agree—be in concord with—all the findings of contemporary science.

This is because even the simplest of motions—a flick of a finger or a turn of the hand to pick up a pencil—is maddeningly complex and requires coordination and computational power beyond electronic abilities. For this you need a brain. One of our favorite quotes on this matter comes from the neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinás: "That which we call thinking is the evolutionary internalization of movement.

Patterns of thinking and movement that are automatic get stored in the basal ganglia, cerebellum, and brain stem—primitive areas that until recently scientists thought related only to movement.

My thinking was this: Just because you're out to curb some of the ridiculous costs doesn't mean you're out to weaken the nation's defense.

Water takes the shape of whatever container holds it, whether it be in a glass, a vase or a river bank. Likewise, your subconscious will create and manifest according to the images you habitually project upon it through your daily thinking. This is how your destiny is created. Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

I just havent been conditioned into thinking that the right answer cant be a simple one. When I told you youd been contaminated I meant by that attitude, which is wider-spread than the common cold and just as undermining. Did nobody ever point out to you that the only liberty implied by free will is the opportunity to be wrong?