Quotes About Thinking

Learning about our history and diving deep in Enslaved, opened my eyes to a new way of thinking. Playing my character really inspired me – he was an author who had a role in the abolition of slavery and even signed the document.

You're thinking I'm a hopelessly romantic idiot. And you know what? You're right.

The belief in death leads meditating about life; meanwhile, the belief in life leads you thinking about death.

So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical thinking leads to a cumulation of knowledge (of which the progress of the natural sciences provides the best example) and the advance of knowledge sooner or later undermines the traditional order. Confused thinking, on the other hand, leads nowhere in particular and can be indulged indefinitely without producing any impact upon the world.

The skeptical and frequently hostile reactions to prions from many precincts of the scientific community reflected resistance to a profound change in thinking. Prions were seen as an anomaly: they reproduce and infect but contain no genetic material—neither DNA nor RNA; thus they constitute a disruptive transition in our understanding of the biological world.

Quem lê fica a refletir, quem reflete forma uma opinião, quem tem uma opinião pode disssidir, quem se torna dissidente passa a ser inimigo. É tão simples como isto.

la escritura, que ha evolucionado desde los pliegos más sencillos, pasando por los rollos, hasta culminar en el libro, ha puesto fin al trágico confinamiento de las vivencias y de la experiencia en el alma individual: desde que existe el libro nadie está ya completamente solo, sin otra perspectiva que la que le ofrece su propio punto de vista, pues tiene al alcance de su mano el presente y el pasado, el pensar y el sentir de toda la humanidad.

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.

I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do. The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock'n'roll for a second that I'm on holiday.

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.

... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.

People think I'm into positive thinking. I'm not a positive thinking guy. I'm into the truth. I'm a hunter of human excellence.