Quotes About Thinking

STEP 4 IN SYNTOPICAL READING: DEFINING THE ISSUES

Unless there is substantive activity going both ways, love is merely a tired platitude without any substance – wishful thinking. In fact, love is another word for happiness and wholeness, but without features, it simply cannot exist.

I'm much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I don't work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it.

Once we give the sense of contradiction its due, we see that genuinely feminist philosophical work ... not only has the potential to revolutionalize philosophy but actually demands a reappraisal, from the ground up, of what it is to be a human—a thinking and sexed—being.

I started to murmur my own spell, but I found myself thinking not of roses but of water, and thirsty ground; building underneath his magic instead of trying to overlay it.

For women to be urged to think continually of beauty's fragility and transience is a way to try to keep us subservient, by maintaining in us a fatalism that has not been part of Western men's thinking since the Renaissance.

TO do much clear thinking a man must arrange for regular periods of solitude when he can concentrate and indulge his imagination without distraction. -Thomas A. Edison.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs, are, generally, easily influenced by the opinions of others. They permit the newspapers and the gossiping neighbors to do their thinking for them. Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth.

Insincere or false thinking is never great, however logical and brilliant it may be.

La felicidad, o lo más cercano a ella a que puede aspirar cualquier criatura pensante, la paz de espíritu, es aquello que se evapora por el camino que lleva del creer al saber.

Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't stop to think or reason.

Guardi, Daniel, le donne, con rare eccezioni, quali la sua vicina Merceditas, sono più intelligenti di noi o, perlomeno, più sincere con se stesse rispetto a ciò che vogliono. Che poi te lo facciano sapere è un altro paio di maniche. La femmina, Daniel, è un enigma della natura. E' una babele, un labirinto. Se le lascia il tempo di pensare, non ha più scampo. [...]

Como nos ensina Freud,a mulher deseja o contrário daquilo que pensa ou declara,o que,bem vistas as coisas não é assim tão terrível,porque o homem,como nos ensina o Calino, obedece em contrapartida aos ditames do seu aparelho genital ou digestivo.

I need to write. It keeps me focused for long enough to complete thoughts. To let each train of thought run to its conclusion and let a new one begin. It keeps me thinking. I'm afraid that if I stop writing I'll stop thinking and start feeling.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

People are moderately more likely to favor approaches that involve reflection and deliberation.

Okay, let's do a tally. You think I'm infuriating, wimpy, and...adorable. I never said adorable. He shifted closer, craving the heat of her body. I know, but you're thinking it.

My brother doesn't know how to think of anything other than his own responsibilities. Perhaps she will teach him-? Perhaps? Possibly? Maybe? Mother, Elin deserves better. Every woman deserves better.

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.

And while positivity is the seed of many a great thing, wishful thinking alone doesn't make a good foundation for marriage.

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.

I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.

I decided that since I was trying to teach 'style' of thinking in science and engineering, and 'style' is an art, I should therefore copy the methods of teaching used for the other arts - once the fundamentals have been learned.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.