Quotes About Thinking

Attraverso i libri ho appreso che i cieli non sono affatto umani e che un uomo che sa pensare, anche lui non è umano, non che non lo voglia, ma ciò contrasta col giusto modo di pensare.

Once people figure out your way of thinking you have lost your true essence. Always let people wonder - you will always be interesting.

It hits me that this kind of thinking is in alignment with the traditional adaptiveness of the sea nomads: that we should teach ourselves how to live with water, not how to keep it at bay.

He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.

Philosophy is a process of inquiry only. It doesn't attempt to find specific answers to specific questions.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

In a classroom, when it's silent, they're thinking. You've got to give them time to think.

Women! They insist on mixing everything up together. Perhaps they operate better that way, but it is very hard on those of us who find that keeping emotion and logic separate produces sounder thinking.

Hard work applied properly and intelligently, and thinking in an organized manner, must lead to success.

most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.

Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.

It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.' 'And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.' 'That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.' 'Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things.

mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.

If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.

What alternative is there to the media's "Us" versus "Them"? The danger is that if it is used to prop up this "righteous" position of "ours" all we will see from now on are ever more exacting and minute analyses of the "dirty" distortions in "their" thinking. Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.

if management lets itself drift, it invariably drifts in the direction of thinking of itself as producing goods and services, not customer satisfactions.

reading too much useless information makes you 46% less likely to think clearly

the organization must learn to think of itself not as producing goods or services but as buying customers

The use of "war games" is a powerful antidote to the lack of thinking about competitors' reactions to proposed moves. 11.

If thinking is an intellectual response to a problem, then the absence of a problem leads to the absence of thinking.

Clarity in Thinking: If matters get mixed up then scrutinize the cause and you will know what the effects will be.[8]

Only within metaphysics does logic exist.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate & special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the suposition that every child is an idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself...