Quotes About Thinking

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

The thing that will make the biggest difference to your business, your bank account, your health and your relationships in the next 12 months is your philosophy

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.

The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.

My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and humanity.

A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.