Quotes About Thinking

I tried to think but nothing happened!

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

Well, at first I was thinking we could challenge them to a few rounds of Scattergories, but then I realized fighting would be way more emotionally satisfying." -Buffy

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

If we remain wedded to the way education is currently provided we cannot imagine other ways. We need some imagination, some fantasy, some new ways of thinking - some magic in fact.

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone.

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.