Quotes About Thinking

I've been thinking." Tapping his booted toes together, he tilted his head on the cushion. "Thinking what?" Looking to the side, she clutched her coat a little tighter. "I've been thinking that being a country doctor might be a rather nice change of pace." The tapping stopped. His body stilled. "What are you saying?" She looked at him. "That I'd go to Texas with you if the offer is still good.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

There are only two kinds of thoughts you can have, memories and imaginings.

The New Testament calls this "the peace that passes understanding," because it goes beyond thinking—no amount of mental churning will get you there.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one's self.

People stop thinking when they cease to read.

I was wondering how you were going to punish me for not confiding in you. Punishment, actually, is something I've been thinking about for a long time. What form of punishment is enough for what I did? Imprisonment? Death? Something else? Something scarier? I could only think of so many horrible tortures before they stopped having meaning. But you, you've come up with a punishment I never considered. You're going to sulk me to death.

Fulfillment is structured in achievement, Achievement is structured in action, Action is structured in thinking, Thinking is structured in knowledge, Knowledge is structured in consciousness

There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.

Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.

The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.

In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

A true Leader asks advice, when he has time to think; but he never asks advice in a crisis. He acts.