Quotes About Thinking

A distinguished journalist advised me to be so clear in my thinking that I could hold the story of what happened in a single sentence. It is this: I came upon something evil and destroyed it.

I would suggest that true literacy—the kind that matters—brings about clearer thinking and informed action. Thus, true biblical literacy involves an interaction with the Bible that changes the way one thinks and acts, and that kind of interaction takes time.

It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.

That is what philosophers are good for: stating the obvious that no one else is emotionally willing to admit. The trouble with trying to think clearly is that our emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.

Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.

Nature gave men two ends — one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

I am loyal to my beloved Joffrey. (Sansa) No doubt. As loyal as a deer surrounded by wolves. (Tyrion) Lions, she whispered without thinking.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

My brothers have my measure when it comes to fighting and dancing and thinking and reading books, but none of them is half my equal at lying insensible in the mud.

So there is magic beyond the Wall after all. He found himself thinking of his sisters, perhaps because he'd dreamed of them last night. Sansa would call this an enchantment, and tears would fill her eyes at the wonder of it...

Si todo el mundo piensa igual es que alguien no está pensando.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

I CAN STATE THE CORE IDEA in two relatively simple propositions. One is that in situations that have thinking participants, the participants' view of the world is always partial and distorted. That is the principle of fallibility. The other is that these distorted views can influence the situation to which they relate because false views lead to inappropriate actions. That is the principle of reflexivity.

We are accustomed to think of events as a sequence of facts: one set of facts follows another in a never-ending chain. When a situation has thinking participants, the chain does not lead directly from fact to fact. It links a fact to the participants' thinking and then connects the participants' thinking to the next set of facts.

People forget that stereotypes aren't bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isnt a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!

You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!

But throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.