Quotes About Thinking

True thinking is rare—just like true listening. Thinking is listening to yourself.

People think they think, but it's not true. It's mostly self-criticism that passes for thinking. True thinking is rare - just like true listening. Thinking is listening to yourself. It's difficult. To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time. Then you have to let those people disagree.

They can't do it without wandering down blind alleys or making contradictory or even nonsensical claims. This is partly because talking (and thinking) is often more about forgetting than about remembering.

Thinking is listening to yourself. It's difficult. To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time. Then you have to let those people disagree. Thinking is an internal dialogue between two or more different views of the world.

And if you're not thinking such things through, then you're not acting responsibly as a parent. You're leaving the dirty work to someone else, who will be much dirtier doing it.

Qué puedes hacer entonces si no se te da muy bien pensar, si no consigues ser dos personas al mismo tiempo? Es fácil. Habla.

The socialism that soon afterward became so attractive to me as an alternative proved equally insubstantial; with time, I came to understand, through the great George Orwell, that much of such thinking found its motivation in hatred of the rich and successful, instead of true regard for the poor.

Nietzsche, for his part, posited that individual human beings would have to invent their own values in the aftermath of God's death. But this is the element of his thinking that appears weakest, psychologically:

people depend on constant communication with others to keep their minds organized. We all need to think to keep things straight, but we mostly think by talking.

When people think, they simulate the world, and plan how to act in it. If they do a good job of simulating, they can figure out what stupid things they shouldn't do. Then they can not do them. Then they don't have to suffer the consequences. That's the purpose of thinking.

It comes back to his math-trained habits of thought. A mathematician is always asking, "What assumptions are you making?

Usually, when someone announces they're a "nonlinear thinker" they're about to apologize for losing something you lent them.

You can do linear regression without thinking about whether the phenomenon you're modeling is actually close to linear. But you shouldn't.

I used to eat because food tastes so good. I love food, it's one of the best things on this planet. But I changed the way I was thinking. I started asking myself, 'Hey, am I eating because it tastes good? Or because I really need some more? Am I really still hungry?'

stilling—very still—breathing into this oxygen which also pockets my looking hard, just that, takes it in, also my thinking which I try to seal off, my humanity, I was not a mistake is what my humanity thinks, I cannot go somewhere else than this body…

Ah, a literatura!... - exclamou. - Meu amigo, ler não é pensar a sós: ler é dialogar! Porém o diálogo da leitura é um diálogo platónico: o teu interlocutor constitui uma ideia. Contudo não se trata de uma ideia imutável: ao dialogares com ela, modifica-la, torna-la tua, chegas a acreditar na sua existência autónoma...

rationalism is a form of intellectual bigotry which, in thinking about reality, tries to take it into account as little as possible.

La universidad ha arruinado desde hace generaciones la vitalidad del pensamiento y queda ya solo su momia y su esqueleto, como algo que se enseña de tal hora a tal hora. Pensar es otra cosa. Es terror, entusiasmo, desazón, curiosidad, profunda delicia, exaltación... es lo qu ese produce cuando el vivir se estira, se acrece y siendo vivir es más que vivir Ortega y Gasset A la Biografia de Jordi Gracia

nuestra vida es en todo instante y antes que nada conciencia de lo que nos es posible

O homem médio tem "ideias" dentro de si, mas carece da função de idear.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

Deben ser rigurosamente excluidas de la dirección educativa todas las influencias políticas y dogmáticas. Las primeras corrompen la moral de los educadores y rebajan el nivel de la enseñanza; las segundas conspiran contra la libertad de pensar y tienden a invadir el fuero del conciencia individual.

La Rutina, síntesis de todos los renunciamientos, es el hábito de renunciar a pensar.

Temerosos de pensar, como si fincasen en ello el pecado mayor de los siete capitales, pierden la aptitud para todo juicio; por eso cuando un mediocre es juez, aunque comprenda que su deber 60 es hacer justicia, se somete a la rutina y cumple el triste oficio de no hacerla nunca y embrollarla con frecuencia.