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Quotes About Thinking

Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In a classroom, when it's silent, they're thinking. You've got to give them time to think.
~ Harry Gilbert
You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.
~ Erykah Badu
Nothing pains some people more than having to think
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.
~ Temple Grandin
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
~ Daniel Goleman
Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.
~ Herman Kahn
Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.
~ J. I. Packer
It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.
~ Roger Penrose
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
~ Niklaus Wirth
The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.
~ Sivananda
From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.
~ Tony Attwood
The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
~ William James
You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.
~ Charlie Munger
We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.
~ Stephen Levine
The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms of reflection.
~ Northrop Frye
Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
~ Albert Einstein
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.
~ Louise Hay
Yes, I can talk and think at the same time. Most people can, though I suppose you wouldn't know that from personal experience. Elena (Bitten)
~ Kelley Armstrong
The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.
~ Terence McKenna
Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.
~ William S. Burroughs