Quotes About Thinking

Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Nothing is more evident than that Nature hates mind. Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

The Lizards were extremely philosophical by nature, and often sat thinking for hours and hours together

Wer nicht auf seine Weise denkt, denkt überhaupt nicht.

Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically is to be perpetually astonished.

Apollo Loves at first sight; he wants to marry Daphne, He hopes for what he wants—all wishful thinking!

I mean, like I needed the stress of a fight with slutty Ms. Thinking-She's-All-That added on top of a life/species/school change?

The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.

I say, you don't know how I could raise fifty quid somehow, do you? Why don't you work? Work? said young Bingo, surprised. What, me? No, I shall have to think of some way.

After all, golf is only a game,'' said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they're saying.

Writing my books I enjoy. It is the thinking them out that is apt to blot the sunshine from my life.

It calls for sophisticated handling. We shall have to think this over. I've been thinking it over for hours. Yes, but you've got one of those cheap substitute brains which are never any good. It will be different when a man like me starts giving it the cream of his intellect.

The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into a lucid form and forcing them into the tightfitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

Many feel that process and creativity are in conflict, believing that creativity needs spontaneity and unstructured approaches. No doubt, a lot of creativity is a by-product of informal, spontaneous thinking.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than thinnking up how to win.

Hate had begun to paralyze his thinking, he realized, to make little blind alleys of the roads that logic had pointed out to him in New York.

Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

I told you she had an inconsequent mind. That's putting it much too mildly. When it comes to anything like evidence, she hasn't really got a mind at all - she just dives into a sort of lumber-room and brings out odds and ends.

Whether in war or peace, the chief difference between good thinking and bad thinking is this: good thinking deals with causes and effects and leads to logical, constructive planning; bad thinking frequently leads to tension and nervous breakdowns.

En paz o en guerra, la principal diferencia entre el modo de pensar bueno y el malo radica en esto: el buen pensar examina las causas y los efectos y lleva a proyectos lógicos y constructivos; el mal pensar conduce frecuentemente a la tensión y a la depresión nerviosa.