329 quotes found
“Facts in books statistics in encyclopedias the ability to use them in men's heads.”
“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.”
“The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said 'All things are to be exa...”
“Thought is born of failure.”
“Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.”
“What you think is an illusion created by your glands your emotions and in the last analysis by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement p...”
“Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.”
“Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.”
“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.”
“As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.”
“Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.”
“I think, as a child, there weren't dreams. I can't recall as a child having some ultimate dream and thinking that it was possible.”
“My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.”
“The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.”
“As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.”
“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”
“Sometimes when you had a thought, it refused to leave. You rejected it, disowned it, sent it away, to find, moments later, that you were still spending time with it. It might have a different shape...”
“Understanding requires a person’s ability to grasp or comprehend information.”
“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,...”
“Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for a way to shatter the glass doors of a museum. When you ...”
