Quotes About Thinking

Ford goes: "Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don't think about things and then--we remember--and the remembering is worse than thinking of it all the time would have been.

You must learn to think a little, Anne, that's what. The proverb you need to go by is 'Look before you leap'--especially into spare room beds.

Without execution, the breakthrough thinking breaks down, learning adds no value, people don't meet their stretch goals, and the revolution stops dead in its tracks. What you get is change for the worse, because failure drains the energy from your organization. Repeated failure destroys it.

It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.

I can work and think too," Call said. "You're the only man I know whose brain don't work unless it's in the shade.

So . . . with several key suspects on the line, she had a lot to think about. But first, there was a tea party that needed hosting.

You listened so you would learn; you thought so that your answer would not return to humiliate or harm you, because, in Paulie's world, once something was said it could not be called back or explained away.

But there is supposed to be sex in this book, isn't there? I suppose I could write a chapter without having anybody do anything to anybody, just talking and thinking, but it seems a bad idea for the very first chapter of the book. The reader might get discouraged. It seems, oh, very egoish to feel that total strangers will be that interested in what one says or thinks, but everybody

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.

Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.

For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.