Quotes About Thinking

Socratic questioning was a good idea, because (a) it got students thinking for themselves, (b) sometimes they came up with ideas she hadn't thought of, and (c) it gave her more time to think while they were trying to find answers.

How?" Irene enquired. She'd decided a while back that Socratic questioning was a good idea, because (a) it got students thinking for themselves, (b) sometimes they came up with ideas she hadn't thought of, and (c) it gave her more time to think while they were trying to find answers.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

Are we using digital computers to sequence, store, and better replicate our own genetic code, thereby optimizing human beings, or are digital computers optimizing our genetic code—and our way of thinking—so that we can better assist in replicating them?

Google sought to gauge what people were thinking, and became what people were thinking.

Speaking for George Will, on whose thinking I am world's foremost authority, I say: not necessarily. The heavy hitters do have heavy responsibilities.

actual brains, which turn out be much more like sensory processors than logic machines.

It seems that we had...not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.

If he and I ever had a family . . . Children? Was I really thinking about having his children? I pictured what Rogan's children might be like. Smart, and beautiful, and deadly. And impossible. They would be little demon children, getting into everything, trying everything, and not understanding the word no.

The human mind is infinitely complex. We make a myriad of decisions without even realizing it. Something causes us to roll the pen between our fingers while we're thinking.

As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation to free thinking - this gradually works back upon the character of the people, who thereby gradually become capable of managing freedom; finally, it affects the principles of government, which finds it to its advantage to treat men, who are now more than machines, in accordance with their dignity.

Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass

Denken zonder ervaring is leeg, maar ervaring zonder denken is blind.

Nu se poate înv??a filozofia; se poate înv??a doar filozofarea.

My object is to persuade all those who think metaphysics worth studying that it is absolutely necessary to pause a moment and, disregarding all that has been done, to propose first the preliminary question, "Whether such a thing as metaphysics be at all possible?

thinking about the misery of the world is a favourite contemporary occupation. and if you can't think the television set will think for you.

But you are metaphysical, Otto. You ought to think about her in more simple terms.

What are you thinking, my love, my darling?' 'About you. I was wondering if you could make me happy. It would be fearfully difficult.' 'I'm fearfully clever, and I love you fearfully much.

But oh — time has become such a torture, a slow torture. One tries to capture a piece of time that lies ahead and is full of light . . . but thinking about that just makes this awful black time even blacker.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.