Quotes About Thinking

Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think," said the novelist David Foster Wallace in a commencement address at Kenyon College in 2005.

By substituting outer symbols for inner memories, writing threatens to make us shallower thinkers, he says, preventing us from achieving the intellectual depth that leads to wisdom and true happiness.

Drawings are not just end products: they are part of the thought process

Jordan Grafman, head of the cognitive neuroscience unit at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, explains that the constant shifting of our attention when we're online may make our brains more nimble when it comes to multitasking, but improving our ability to multitask actually hampers our ability to think deeply and creatively.

The more you multitask, the less deliberative you become; the less able to think and reason out a problem.

What both enthusiast and skeptic miss is what McLuhan saw: that in the long run a medium's content matters less than the medium itself in influencing how we think and act.

This is not a tidy world of tyrannical men and victimized women, but a messier realm of oppressive social customs adhered to by men and women alike. As we said, laws can help, but the greatest challenge is to change these ways of thinking.

What one repeatedly finds in Derrida's work is the uncanny effect by which one is invited to sense the unfolding of all of his thinking starting out from anywhere, from any idea, any word, any thought that happens to be at issue. 'Deconstruction' is perhaps the best-known word for this.

I want to learn, to wander and ask and think and listen like…like a priest of a prince." "Not gold?" "Gold comes to priests and princes.

Leifin was obsessed by perfection and possessions. It was an obsession that prevented her from seeing any difference between carving something beautiful and killing another thinking, feeling being for its fur.

She was beginning to see patterns, learning how to think.

She could no more stop thinking than stop breathing.

Democratic thinking tends to deduce the consequences of action with the same straightforward confidence as the implications of a principle. What the reactionary, on the other hand, knows how to see is the paradoxical nature of actions, of people, of the world.

Yoga, because it is focused so much on developing our inner mind rather than keeping up with outer names and forms, is all about independent thinking.

Înainte s? scrii, înva?? s? gânde?ti.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

As soon as you start to doubt your own existence, the act of doubting proves that you exist as a thinking thing. This

No es posible pensar sistemáticamente sin escribir.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

As Albert Einstein once said, "What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.