Quotes About Thinking

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

There's this crazy thinking that style guarantees truth. You go out with a hand-held camera, use available light, and somehow the truth emerges.

Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

Even in a remote monastery, you may still be remote from the truth! To find the truth, all you need is a sound way of thinking.

Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously, coming from the light of the Spirit.

Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

Find a place to think and a person to love and be happy.

Any education that doesn't allow you to think freely is not an education but a prison.

The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings.

Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclusions

MacKaye had been drawn to punk partly because it provided a community framework for his outsider thinking. "I've always been enthralled by gangs and communes, any collection of people where it's a family kind of thing

Only by being alone – by resisting the blandishments to become part of the crowd – can the young thinker develop to think independently.

All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society's institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions.

I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing . . . I don't want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports

They're both technicians. They have what I call 'thintelligence'. They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused'. They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.

They're both technicians. They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.

They're both technicians. They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences. That's how you get an island like this. From thintelligent thinking.

En la sociedad de la información, nadie piensa. Esperábamos desterrar el papel pero, en realidad, desterramos el pensamiento.

The machine does much of what we used to do. The machine thinks for us. The machine has become, instead of a tool, the replacement of our minds. Use it (our minds) or lose it has become a reality today. And, since we are less inclined to use it, we are most definitely losing it. Our power to think is being rapidly deteriorated.

the difference between creativity and Innovation is the difference between thinking about getting things done in the world and getting things done.

El problema consiste en que pensamos que estamos despiertos. Pensamos que ya somos objetivos. Pensamos que ya somos individuos. Pensamos que ya somos libres. ¡Pensamos que pensamos!

Ironically, the increase in numbers of the strategic planners had the effect of releasing the client service people from any previous responsibilities they had for brand strategic thinking – leaving them free simply to coordinate with their clients and give them all the service they needed. One