Quotes About Thinking

People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action.

We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.

Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.

The cause of anger lies in our thinking - in thoughts of blame and judgment.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are.

Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

Confidence is consistency of thinking about what is possible and how to make it possible.

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

To you things that aren't thinkable in intellectual terms aren't worth thinking about.

In human society, thinking's the greatest transgression of all.

How you think matters more than what you think

Fuzzy thinking can never be proven wrong. And only when we are proven wrong so clearly that we can no longer deny it to ourselves will we adjust our mental models of the world—producing a clearer picture of reality. Forecast, measure, revise: it is the surest path to seeing better.

Foresight isn't a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of updating beliefs. These habits of thought can be learned and cultivated by any intelligent, thoughtful, determined person.