Quotes About Thinking

I thence concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature consists only in thinking, and which, that it may exist, has need of no place, nor is dependent on any material thing; so that " I," that is to say, the mind by which I am what I am, is wholly distinct from the body, and is even more easily known than the latter, and is such, that although the latter were not, it would still continue to be all that it is.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with obtaining concrete results, whenever he is hard pressed by reality, he abandons abstract speculation and reverts to a mode of response that becomes increasingly cautious and conservative as the forces he hopes to subdue, or at least to outrun, draw ever nearer.

In Europe one generally has the tendency to exaggerate the importance of Buddhism, which is certainly the least interesting of all the Eastern doctrines, but which precisely because it constitutes a deviation and anomaly for the East can seem more accessible to the Western mentality and less foreign to its customary forms of thinking.

Crises and deadlocks, when they occur, have at least this advantage that they force us to think. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

I never try to do any deep thinking while I'm driving; the thinking gets you nowhere and the driving might get you where you would rather not be;

As I stirred I was thinking that if she was hoping for any cooperation from Wolfe it was too bad she had asked for gin, since in his book all gin drinkers were barbarians.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them." [ Life magazine, December 10, 1965]

thinking you have no control over something, or when you find yourself hoping something will turn out well, remember that there's no chance for the law of attraction – you will get what you're thinking and feeling. Gratitude helps protect you from attracting what you don't want – bad outcomes – and it ensures you get what you do want – Magnificent Outcomes!

Every problem perceived to be 'out there' is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking." Byron Katie, from Loving What Is

Hope?! Hope is a bit desperate, isn't it? Hope is right below wishful thinking and right above performing a rain dance.

I do not apologize for these terms or, more generally, for discussing judicial thinking in a vocabulary alien to most judges and lawyers. Judicial behavior cannot be understood in the vocabulary that judges themselves use, sometimes mischievously. (11)

Thinking should always be an active process where you think in a way that gets you the results you want.

Thinking isn't a passive process unless you do it passively. Thinking should always be an active process where you think in a way that gets you the results you want.

The first step when learning the Alexander Technique is to try to become more aware of yourself as you go about your daily activities as well as being more aware of what you are thinking as you do them.

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.

is a good deal of scientific support for the hypothesis that higher levels of thinking depend on language.

party passions led to muddled or dishonest thinking, made people unreasonable or stereotypical, and lacked long-term perspective.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.

Every belief about every aspect of the world is based on countless inferences we make via mental processes we can't observe.

Serious disputes are seldom resolved without a genuine change in the parties' thinking. And a false consensus may be more productive of conflict than an honest disagreement.