Quotes About Thinking

Dumb ideas come from people who have dumb brains

The whole night I was thinking and dreaming to give you the most beautiful gift and that is my heart.

You have to think before you can feel. You have to conceive before you can perceive.

I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.

True education does not fill our minds with facts but teach us how to think to gain wisdom.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

You sound like a college freshman taking his first philosophy class way too seriously, but that's good.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.

Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you'd better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!

I don't know how things stand in the thinking of the Italian parliament. The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

A negative mind will never give you a positive life.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.