Quotes About Thinking

Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.

Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.

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

It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.

The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.

This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias against conceptual thinking in favor of a very rigorous physical life.

Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think

The spiritual mind is always metaphorical. Spiritual thinking is poetic thinking. It's always trying to put a very diaphanous experience into words, realizing all the while that words are inadequate.

…But so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts are in nine cases out of ten the result of independent means.

Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking

It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.