Quotes About Thinking

Don't," Myrtle said sharply. "Thinking is not your strong suit, Pansy. Nor Viola's. Neither of you have any experience of the world on which to base any opinion at all. If you will keep your thoughts to yourself, they will not be exposed as foolishness.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

God is not a harsh taskmaster who simply wants obedience. His instructions in his Word for thinking and acting rightly are for our benefit. He knows that when we live according to his ways, it brings us joy, fulfillment, and meaning in life.

If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel deeply, then we need to sit around and, well, feel. But emotion built on emotion is empty. True emotion- emotion that is reliable and does not lead us astray- is always a response to reality, to truth.

Psychiatrists see only a biological brain disease. Psychologists see only errors in thinking. That is, if you don't like yourself, or you feel hopeless, or you see life as fundamentally dissatisfying, you've fallen victim to what researchers call "learned helplessness." By some blend of bad genes and bad experience, you have come to see the world in dark hues. Therapy and medication can help you see the world the way healthy optimists do.

Desde un punto de vista heurístico, las intuiciones son información no procesada de forma racional que pueden producir un resultado cognitivo que se ha saltado procesos lógicos de pensamiento.

un punto de vista heurístico, las intuiciones son información no procesada de forma racional que pueden producir un resultado cognitivo que se ha saltado procesos lógicos de pensamiento.

Why should joy be banned forever? Why do they think that thinking is a crime? Why do they put clamps on ideas? The Law's judgments should rest on facts alone, proven, consummated facts.

With Bayesian networks, we had taught machines to think in shades of grey, and this was an important step toward humanlike thinking. But we still couldn't teach machines to understand causes and effects. We couldn't explain to a computer why turning the dial of a barometer won't cause rain.... Without the ability to envision alternate realities and contrast them with the currently existing reality, a machine...cannot answer the most basic question that makes us human: "Why?

Literature makes us better thinkers. It moves us to see the multi-sidedness of situations and therefore expands the breadth of our visions, moving us towards dreams and solutions we might otherwise have imagined.

Survivors feel unsafe in their bodies. Their emotions and their thinking feel out of control. They also feel unsafe in relation to other people.

Tell me, Brother Gregory, in your opinion can a woman think as well as a man?" "Properly speaking," he said in a learned voice, "a woman cannot think at all, or at least, think as we men know it. But the imitative ability is very greatly developed in women, so that by copying men, some may attain the appearance of thought.

When faced with the illogical, one must expand the sphere of logic to include rules of logic for that which is not logic. This is the only possibility in a world that works according to the rules of rationality.

To doubt everything and to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; each saves us from thinking.

Was den Menschen vom Tier unterschied, war die Fähigkeit, im Angesicht der Katastrophe "Siehste!" zu denken.

philosophical thinking. This kind of reflective, probing thinking regarded Medea's situation as calling for explanation and understanding in terms that they, and we so many years later, can readily recognize as philosophical.

Sólo se puede vencer a los adversarios si uno es capaz de pensar como ellos, de lo contrario uno termina engañándose a sí mismo.

Admiro tu capacidad para ponerte en la piel de los demás, para comprender sus razones. Sólo se puede vencer a los adversarios si uno es capaz de pensar como ellos, de lo contrario uno termina engañándose a sí mismo.

She absentmindedly twirled her fingers around a lock of her long, brown hair, one of her few concessions to vanity. It would have been more sensible to cut it short, but it was thick and soft, and Henry just couldn't bear to part with it. Besides, it was her habit to wind it around her fingers while she was thinking hard about a problem, as she was doing now.

The lessons of slushing and editing build up over time, and you're not necessarily thinking about them while you're working, but they're in the back of your mind, probably influencing your choices.

With all the goodwill and local initiative in the world, we are not about to rewild anything until we change our way of thinking about our place in the creaturely world.

The thing is, with 'This Is England', you're always thinking as yourself. You're acting on an instinct. You're acting on what you've heard, what you've been told, and what's happened beforehand.

There are only a handful of educational institutions that can be called emblems of a Thinking India.