Quotes About Thinking

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think

Most of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, but we are actually feeling creatures that think.

I'm having a late lunch and thinking it over." "What is that you're having?" "Fruit salad." "That's funny," Kylie said, "cuz it looks like a sangria." "Huh. Weird." Sadie sipped her "fruit salad.

of processing and analyzing: two hours of sleep. Cost of thinking: two more hours of sleep. Cost of giving the elusive more to the insanely sexy Stone Wilder: priceless.

I look at things and think about them,' Folly replied. 'And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical models that seem to apply.

HOW CAN YOU KNOW THIS?" the Voice demanded. "I look at things and think about them," Folly replied. "And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical models that seem to apply.

It's more common for the students I've worked with to read too much than to read too little. They use reading as a distraction, or as a way to avoid having to think their own thoughts, or as a magic charm: "If I read everything in the field, then I'll be able to write and be sure I haven't missed anything.

I am not much engaged by the problems of what you might call our day but I am burdened by the particular, the mad person who writes me a letter. It is no longer necessary for them even to write me. I know when someone is thinking of me. I learn to deal with this.

As it happens I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language, and I am not optimistic about children who will settle for saying, to indicate that their mother and father do not live together, that they come from "a broken home." They are sixteen, fifteen, fourteen years old, younger all the time, an army of children waiting to be given the words.

When we found that person in the freezer, it done freaked me out. I ain't thinking straight. I shoulda gone ahead and cleaned the refrigerator right then and there. That meat'll smell something fierce if I don't get

Sagittarians rarely talk about their feelings—they talk about what they think about their feelings.

We all overlay our feelings with too much thinking. We are afraid of our feelings because they are arbitrary and volatile, and we often need literature to make our feelings intelligible to us, to make us see that our reaction to what we can't choose and what we can is what shapes our lives.

Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.

How does someone go from thinking that if he cannot rescue, he must destroy? And do you blame him, or do you blame the folks who should have told him otherwise?

I've got an overactive brain. I enjoy work, I enjoy life, and I'm not good at relaxing. I've also never slept very much due to this overactive imagination and my brain constantly thinking.

My heart thump, not from being nervous; sometimes I'm thinkin god made me special here on purpose.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you, it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts, hence grappling with hard work & with the ability to say I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

If I think, I wont drink. if I drink, I cant think.

The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present century shows us what experimentation without thinking leads to.

If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate more deeply into the springs of human action

When you make a conscious decision to start or end a relationship, the most important thing to be aware of is that it is your decision and you have your reasons. Therefore there are no long term regrets. However, if the decision is made by someone else, then the control is taken away and it's far more likely to lapse into regretful thinking.