Quotes About Thinking

We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be revolutionary but not transformative.

there are ways of thinking that we don't know about. Nothing could be more important or precious than that knowledge, however unborn. The sense of urgency, the spiritual restlessness it engenders, cannot be appeased . . . —Susan Son tag, Styles of Radical Will

I have no doubt that the digital immersion of our children will provide a rich life of entertainment and information and knowledge. My concern is that they will not learn, with their passive immersion, the joy and the effort of the third life, of thinking one's own thoughts and going beyond what is given.

It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

The emergent movement is creating a mushiness to the thinking patterns in Christianity today. It's like we really can't stand for anything.

We are all equal not because we partake in some peculiar nature or because we share in the same credo of unreasoned beliefs, but because we take it that no thinking being is incapable of seeing reason.

I have a morality. I don't know if it's the best morality. And I do like thinking. If people perceive that as a moral intellectualism, that's fine. That's up to them to decide.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that.

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

statistical thinking is merely an artifact of human ignorance. we need to use statistics nature does not.

I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.

Better to be without dialectic rather than without thinking.

Diplomacy requires strength and depth of thinking , tactics require careful observation, the surprise, and decisiveness with the power of decision.

Leadership and unconventional bold thinking are indispensable to one another.

We need to have a quintessence belief that our deed can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about dilemmas.

Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

The intellectual historian can help us to appreciate how far the values embodied in our present way of life, and our present ways of thinking about those values, reflect a series of choices made at different times between different possible worlds.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.

Reading is only dangerous to those who are afraid to imagine,' Mr. Oku says. 'If there is one thing I hope you got out of the Earnest Book Club, it is that each of you is not afraid to use your imagination. That you have accepted Oscar Wilde's invitation to dare. The dare to read books, banned or not. The dare to think. The dare to imagine. The dare to speak your mind. And the dare to be yourself.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.