Quotes About Thinking

A researcher has to be able to identify key points and suggest intelligent questions.

Without evidence, anything goes. Think about it. Common sense says the sun goes round the Earth. Who agrees with me?

For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home.

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

The fickle and ardent, in any community, are the proper tools for establishing despotic government. But it is deliberate and thinking men, who must establish and secure governments on free principles.

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. -

In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness. It is the uncivilized free and wild thinking in Hamlet and the Iliad, in all the scriptures and mythologies, not learned in the schools, that delights us.

As you go through life, don't let your feelings—real as they are—invalidate your need to let the truth of God's words guide your thinking. Remember that the path to your heart travels through your mind. Truth matters.

Our minds are so much set on Earth that we are unaccustomed to heavenly thinking. So we must work at it.

We are fashioned by God to be thinking and emotional creatures. The emotions should follow reason, and not the other way around.

it is up to the thinking Christian to train the mind, take seriously the questioner, and respond with intelligence and relevance.

When one studies the viewing habits of the young and considers the thousands of hours spent unthinkingly in front of a TV screen or iPhone, it is easy to see why the power of abstract reasoning has died since the advent of television and, in the words of Jacques Ellul, we are living with the humiliation of the word.

la incredulidad es contagiosa; es fácil contraerla si no piensa bien en lo que cree y por qué.

Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

When I reread it as a teenager, Fahrenheit 451 had become a book about independence, about thinking for yourself. It was about treasuring books and the dissent inside the covers of books. It was about how we as humans begin by burning books and end by burning people.

There are many actors alone who haven't acted Pirandello or Shaw or Shakespeare for years because their plays are too aware of the world. We could use their anger. And we could use the honest rage of those historians who haven't written a line for forty years. True, we might form classes in thinking and reading.

Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy. Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451

If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

Atibórralos de datos no combustibles, lánzales encima tantos hechos que se sientan abrumados, pero totalmente al día en cuanto a información. Entonces, tendrán la sensación de que piensan, tendrán la impresión de que se mueven sin moverse.

cram them full of [b]non-combustible[/b] data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. [br] then they'll [b]feel they're thinking[/b], they'll get a [i]sense[/i] of motion without moving. [...] [br] don't give them any [b]slippery[/b] stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. that way lies [b]melancholy[/b].

Bourrez les gens de données incombustibles, gorgez-les de faits, qu'ils se sentent gavés, mais absolument brillants côté information. Ils auront l'impression de penser.

cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. then they'll feel they're thinking , they'll get a sense of motion without moving. [...] don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. that way lies melancholy .

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking, he said. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.