Quotes About Thinking

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.

By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated.

Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.

Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.

Jealousy in any form will cloud thinking and form bad habits. Jealousy is an addiction.

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.

Kindness in your dealings with yourself and others will work wonders in your life. Much more so than rightness in your thinking.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

Describir es mucho más difícil que opinar. Por eso, la mayor parte de la gente opina».

Learning and knowledge make people think, and doubt and questioning are difficult companions for faith to have.

Philosophy is a dangerous thing for any dogmatic religion; it makes people think.

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.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

It was the kind of delicious chilliness, though, that was good for thinking about how winter wasn't far away, and snow, and Christmas.

My mother had a philosophy that guided her through many a rough time. 'Only worry when you can do something about it--whatever it is. Then it's not worry, it's thinking things through, trying to decide what's best. When there's nothing you can do, it's just plain worry, and it's pointless and self-destructive.

The reason for writing it down on paper or on a computer where you can see it is because the brain, unlikely as it may sound, is no place for serious thinking. Any time you have serious thinking to do, the first step is to get the whole shootin' match out of your head and set it up someplace where you can walk around it and see it from all sides. Attack, switch sides and counter-attack. You can't do that while it's still in your head.

The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?

But intelligence is not just a matter of acting or behaving intelligently. Behavior is a manifestation of intelligence, but not the central characteristic or primary definition of being intelligent. A moment's reflection proves this: You can be intelligent just lying in the dark, thinking and understanding. Ignoring what goes on in your head and focusing instead on behavior has been a large impediment to understanding intelligence and building intelligent machines

When you ask yourself, What does an intelligent system do?, it is intuitively obvious to think in terms of behavior. We demonstrate human intelligence through our speech, writing, and actions, right? Yes, but only to a point. Intelligence is something that is happening in your head. Behavior is an optional ingredient. This is not intuitively obvious, but it's not hard to understand either.

The neocortex is not like a computer, parallel or otherwise. Instead of computing answers to problems the neocortex uses stored memories to solve problems and produce behavior.

Ideologically disciplined thinkers, especially the more gung-ho ones, often give the appearance of being critical thinkers as they go around deftly applying the official ideology and confidently reporting their judgments. The fact that professionals are usually more well-informed than nonprofessionals contributes to the illusion that they are critical thinkers.

Terroir's direct translation is 'a sense of place,' and what it means is the sum of the effects of a localized environment, inasmuch as they impact the qualities of a particular product. Yes, that can mean wine, but what if you applied these criteria to thinking about Area X?

But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental.