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Quotes About Thinking

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
~ William Glasser
I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.
~ Jeffrey Veen
Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.
~ Edward Tufte
You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.
~ Andy Rooney
It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
~ Mackenzie Astin
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
~ Herman Hesse
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
~ Herodotus
Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible
~ Edward Tufte
People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
~ Eric Schmidt
Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.
~ Dallas Willard
Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.
~ George R. R. Martin
It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.
~ Henry Blodget
The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's hard to find a good guy... all girls know that guys don't think with their brains.
~ Miley Cyrus
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
~ Adolf Hitler
I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.
~ Bob Hawke
The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.
~ Ethan Nadelmann
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
~ Linus Pauling
Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.
~ W. H. Auden
If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I think you're just always trying to find really great, interesting female roles. That's the thing for me. You do have to think about what you're signing up for.
~ Georgina Haig
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
~ Confucius