Quotes About Thinking

Spirituality had little to do with lofty philosophical notions—the things that emerge from thinking—it centered on the hard facts of life.

In the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures. The habit of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction.

What to read? Any good novel enlivens our ability to think about ambiguous situations and judge the intentions of others.

The seduction by a mythicized pas prevents us from thinking about possible futures

The next mode is magical thinking, or the open embrace of contradiction.

In the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicised past prevents us from thinking about possible futures. The habit of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction.

Heinrich Himmler, Hitler's most important deputy, did not follow every twist of Hitler's thinking, but he grasped the conclusions: Ethics as such was the error; the only morality was fidelity to race.

Insofar as climate denial hinders technical progress, it might hasten real disasters, which in their turn can make catastrophic thinking still more credible.

the problem with accepting things that are contradictory as possibly right is that you cannot possibly be thinking yourself when you do it.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Nazism is not dangerous because it proffers a universal system that threatens to engulf the whole world but because it refuses to think universally. Its efforts at world conquest stem from its lack of universality, not an abundance of it.

Education is not about acquiring knowledge, but about learning how to think for oneself and apply that knowledge to make a positive difference in the world.

The lateral thinking concept emerged from de Bono's study of how the mind works. He found that the brain is not best understood as a computer; rather, it is "a special environment which allows information to organize itself into patterns." The mind continually looks for patterns, thinks in terms of patterns, and is self-organizing, incorporating new information in terms of what it already knows. Given

people choose between two ways of coming to conclusions or judgments: by thinking, using an impersonal process of logic; and by feeling, deciding what something means to them.

As thinking is a process of judgment, the final element in this person's type is "Judgment." They are ENTJs. Other people's final letter is P for "Perception," indicating their strong desire to understand better.

He noted the remarkable contrast between how the depressed person feels—that they are a loser or that their life has gone horribly wrong—and the actual conditions of their life, which are often high in achievement. Beck's conclusion was that depression therefore had to be based on problems in thinking. By

Burns lists ten "cognitive distortions," such as all-or-nothing thinking, overgeneralization, disqualifying the positive, jumping to conclusions, and giving ourselves labels. By understanding these distortions, we are led to the awareness that "feelings aren't facts," they are only mirrors of our thoughts.

Look; being in this band, of course it would be great, yeah. But, I mean, I don't live and breathe every minute of every day thinking like, 'Oh, my God. We have to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.'

One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.

Pressure comes from fear. If you start thinking about the result or what might happen if you do something, that's the only time there's pressure.

You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence.

The opening of the Frontier is not an engineering problem. It is not a money problem. It is a challenge to our ability to decide to make it happen and to think and act the right way to get the results we want, we need, we demand.

The difference between me and, say, the opera critic is that I'm charged with thinking about the world beyond opera. I could go see 'Die Fledermaus', for instance. I've never done any of this, by the way. I've never written about one opera since I've had this job.

Football has never left me. I still wake up in the morning and think of the operating room like a game, like it's showtime, let's perform.