329 quotes found
“The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.”
“Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.”
“The thought process can never be complete without articulation.”
“We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.”
“The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.”
“I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts clich about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learni...”
“Thinking is indispensable on the path to passion for God. Thinking is not an end in itself. Nothing but God himself is finally an end in itself. Thinking is not the goal of life. Thinking can be th...”
“People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll b...”
“Eternity of struggle is life.”
“To think is to be sick...”
“Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen.”
“The more thinking minds, the less sinking world!”
“shave you mind with occam's razor everyday”
“If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved”
“At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!”
“Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man.”
“It is so important to think for yourself.”
“Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do. ”
“Places are people as well as rocks, trees and buildings. Places are moments in time.”
“I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.”
